Hard to believe he is gone. Joe played a big, if extremely adversarial, role in my professional life throughout the oughts. So my memories of Joe are not so fond. By his own acknowledgement he built his following at Climate Progress in large part by savaging @TheBTI and @RogerPielkeJr, often in highly misleading ways. But I'm sorry to hear of his passing. He was clearly beloved by family and friends. My father knew him a bit when they were both at DOE and thought well of him. Blogging and social media can distill both people and ideas into caricatures. The keyboard can be anonymizing, allowing one to say things far more sharply than one would ever say in person or in public. And the incentives to pander to an audience once one has one are strong. But it's important to remember that the people sitting behind those keyboards are three dimensional, complicated, multiple. They have families and friends and are often generous and thoughtful in person in ways that belie their online personalities. So RIP Joe. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news…