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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Author of seminal climate report locked out of UK governing circles
Remember the Stern Report on climate change? How it was going to change everything?
Yeah, well, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown -- widely expected to become the next British Prime Minister -- has completely ignored the report's recommendations. He's taking the minimal possible action to address climate change. Stern has been frozen out and will leave the gov't in March.
Bloody awesome!
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Friedman has his flaws, but he’s a stellar communicator
It's safe to say there are mixed feelings about Thomas Friedman among this blog's contributors.His advocacy on the Iraq War was and is risible. His cheerleaderly, monochrome enthusiasm for globalization maddens (how come pundits never talk about outsourcing punditry?). And his chipper, un-self conscious cheesiness can occasionally cause even a pacifist like me to want to physically strike him.
But.
Watch this video, where he explains the green thing to Tim Russert:
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Discover asks it
Discover magazine's No. 1 science story of 2006: How To Live the Good Life Without Oil.
