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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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all the Gristmill readers who celebrate it. To those who celebrate proximate holidays, merry ... those. And to those who celebrate nothing at all, well, here's hoping you make it through the season with your sanity intact.
Now I'm off to play with my kids' new StompRocket.
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Everybody does it
Thanks to Andrew for bringing up science politicization, something I've been meaning to talk about for a while. This was originally a comment on his post, but it got too long so I'm putting it up here.
It seems to me that discussions of science politicization run together two distinct issues.
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From Stern to Al
My editors have always told me: if you want to reach the biggest audience, publish late on the Friday before Christmas weekend.
Mission accomplished!
My list of the top 10 environmental stories of 2006 is available here. I hope all three of you enjoy it.
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The top 10 green stories of the year
Photo: iStockphoto 10. A Stern reminder In October, venerable economist and senior U.K. government adviser Sir Nicholas Stern released a major report on global warming. Its claims were explosive. On the grim side, global warming stands to shave up to 20 percent off the world’s annual GDP by the end of the century. On the […]
