Update: Romm defends remarks as ‘not a threat, but a prediction’ — Strangle Skeptics in Bed! ‘An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds’

[Update: Joe Romm deleted the ‘strangling’ skeptics in bed remark on June 6, but now defends the comments as “clearly not a threat but a prediction” and claimed “some people misread it.” Romm wrote: “The original was clearly not a threat but a prediction — albeit one that I certainly do not agree with. Since some people misread it, I am editing it.” ]

A comment on Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog threatens physical harm to those skeptical of man-made climate fears. The June 5, 2009 comment, posted at 3:01 PM, under the name “Creative Greenius” warns any dissenters from man-made global warming fears that “an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds.” A man named Joe Galliani appears to be the man behind the comments and the Creative Greenius website.

Romm, a former Clinton Administration official, touts New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman praising Climate Progress as an “indispensable blog.” Romm was also named by U.S. News and World Report as one of the “top 8 Washington players on energy and the environment” and dubbed an “Influential Liberal Climate Change Expert” by the magazine. Romm also debated Climate Depot’s Executive Editor Marc Morano on Roll Call TV about global warming and energy policy. ( See: Morano debates former Clinton Official Romm – April 6, 2009 )

This latest threat made against skeptics comes just days after the influential website Talking Points Memo prominently featured a public call “to jail or execute global warming deniers.”

The full post of the Climate Progress comment is reproduced below. Climate Depot has also captured a screen shot of the comments in case they rapidly disappear like the Talking Point Memo article.

Climate Progress threatening comment reproduced in full:

Creative Greenius Says:

June 5th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
@hunter It’s always amusing when some anonymous troll with no website link talks tough in someone else’s blog comments.

But when you’ve got absolutely nothing going for you, lie about everything, and are always wrong, that’s a good choice for you to have made.

It is not my wrath you need fear when there’s an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds. [End transcript]

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