Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Good, random stuff
Some random bits I’ve been meaning to get to: ThinkProgress says: This morning on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "is considering setting up a special committee in the House to deal with climate change and global warming." Also on ABC, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) called climate change "the most […]
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Or at least the Virgos therein
Reading my local alt-weekly The Stranger the other day, I happened to notice my horoscope for the week, courtesy of Free Will Astrology: Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, has a flock of 300 million. Unlike most other religious leaders, he crusades for the preservation of the environment. “To commit a crime […]
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Opportunity costs redux
The Bush administration is working on plans to spend $100 billion on new nuclear weapons. Tell me again how fighting global warming is too expensive.
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What is this ‘good news’ you speak of?
Oh hell yes: Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new Democratic Congress to make an oft-challenged drilling ban permanent. Legislation introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre coastal strip of […]
