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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Economists weigh in for Obama
The Obama campaign’s got a new site up, ObamaForEconomy.com, where various and sundry economists and businessfolk weigh in explaining why they’re supporting Obama. [UPDATE: The site is not affiliated with the Obama campaign — it’s a labor of love by UC-Berkeley geneticist and computational biologist Lenny Teytelman. Good work Lenny!] I like this one: I […]
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McCain adviser, unlike McCain, advocates stimulus spending
Martin Feldstein — a conservative Harvard economist and adviser to the McCain campaign — joins the call for stimulus spending: The president-elect should focus on developing a mechanism for identifying and funding spending initiatives that can occur quickly and that would otherwise not be done. While it would be good if some of the increased […]
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Report shows how world can eliminate fossil fuels by 2090 while sustaining economic growth
We often hear about how the world "can’t" reduce emissions as much as it needs to, that we "have to" keep using coal because it’s abundant, that renewables "can’t" replace fossil fuels because of intermittency and cost, and that shifting to a clean energy economy would be "too expensive." As I’ve said here many times, […]
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Obama talks up electrical grid improvements on cable tv — seriously, I have video evidence
On Thursday night, Barack Obama appeared on the (highly rated) Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Continuing his comprehensive effort to say things that make me really happy, he had a long exchange with Maddow about … the electrical grid. Seriously! He says, “we’re going to have to have a smart grid — if we want […]