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==Controversies==
===Contrarian Reporting on Climate and Conflicts with Climate Change Scientist Dr. Joseph Romm===
In 2009, Dr. Joseph Romm wrote that Kloor had "spread false charges" against him.<ref>Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Nov. 1, 2009, accessed Jan. 2016, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/11/01/204856/keith-kloor-trash-journalist/</ref>
Romm is a physicist who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008, for "distinguished service toward a sustainable energy future and for persuasive discourse on why citizens, corporations, and governments should adopt sustainable technologies."<ref>New Frontier website, accessed Jan. 2016, https://frontierfinancials.com/about-us/our-advisors/about-dr-joseph-romm/</ref> Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he founded their blog, Climate Progress."<ref>Center for American Progress webiste, accessed Jan. 2016, https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/romm-joseph/bio/</ref>
Kloor had repeatedly attacked Romm in multiple venues including ''Nature'' magazine's online site.<ref>Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Nov. 1, 2009, accessed Jan. 2016, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/11/01/204856/keith-kloor-trash-journalist/</ref> As one commenter noted, "There’s almost not a week that goes by in which you don’t have something derisive to say about Joe Romm, often times in concert with [[Roger Pielke Jr.]]Nature later ran a correction of Kloor's article. <ref>Nature magazine blog, Oct. 21, 2009, accessed Jan. 2016, http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/10/countdown_to_copenhagen_2.html</ref> (Pielke has attacked in writing noted climate change scientists like NASA's James Hansen.)<ref>Dylan Otto Krider, ""Is Roger Pielke, Jr. Zelig?", Skepticism Examiner, March 1, 2008.</ref> Kloor later called an analysis of Romm by the Breakthrough Institute, where Roger Pielke Jr is a fellow, a "Fisking of Romm"<ref>Keith Kloor, Colide-a-Scape, March 3, 2010, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2010/03/03/fisking-romm/#.VqWAiLyYelI</ref> When Roger Pielke Jr was criticized for his contrarian views on climate change while writing for 538, Kloor wrote that the "torch-bearing mob that went after him after he published his first piece at Nate Silver’s new site was despicable."<ref> Keith Kloor, A Climate Mob, Collide-a-Scape, April 3, 2014. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/04/03/climate-mob/#.VqWBd7yYelI </ref> After Roger Pielke Jr was later let go by 538, Kloor provided Pielke Jr with a venue to vent his disapproval. <ref>Keith Kloor, Roger Pielke Jr. on FiveThirtyEight and his Climate Critics, Collide-a-Scape, July 28, 2014 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/07/28/roger-pielke-jr-fivethirtyeight-climate-critics/#.VqWC37yYelI</ref> Kloor also wrote a complimentary profile of climate change contrarian Bjorn Lomborg, claiming that Lomborg was "right and his old enemies are being won over." <ref>Keith Kloor, Bjørn Lomborg: The resilient environmentalist, Cosmos, 21 OCT 2013, https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/bjørn-lomborg-resilient-environmentalist</ref> Seven months later, Lomborg was exposed for taking millions in hidden money to promote his contrarian viewpoints.<ref>Graham Readfearn, "The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank," DesMog Blog, June 24, 2014. http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center</ref>
===Issue Raised over Writing about GMOs===
