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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WaPo interviews Obama energy adviser Carol Browner
The Washington Post sat down for an interview with Carol Browner, Obama's energy adviser. For you videophobes, there's a transcript here.
Here's part one:
Here's part two:
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Grist pulled no punches in covering all of George Bush's dirt
A movie no one would make. Imagine that back in 1999 you were a Hollywood studio executive and a movie producer brought you the following pitch: A bumbling, incurious child of privilege wastes his youth on Oedipal rebellion. After stumbling through a series of failed business ventures and an undistinguished stint as governor […]
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Better isn't enough
"President-elect Obama's goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 falls short of the response needed by world leaders to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to levels that will actually spare us the worst effects of climate change."
-- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change