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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New report offers five different pictures of life in 2030
Forum on the Future recently released a report, "derived from published studies and consultations with more than 60 climate-change specialists," that describes five possible scenarios for how climate change might affect our collective future. Here’s the happy one, as described by AFP: ENERGY EFFICIENCY: A swift, peaceful transition to a consumerist economy where heat-trapping carbon […]
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The odd lies of Sarah Palin
Andrew Sullivan is tirelessly cataloguing and regularly updating the "odd lies of Sarah Palin" ("odd" because unlike normal politicians’ deceptions, they’re not exaggerations or misdirections or fuzzy interpretations — they’re just flat out denials of settled, documented fact, easy to debunk with a google search). Gristians may be particularly interested in lies four (endangered species), […]
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Vital realism
Bryan Walsh: “Shellenberger and Nordhaus have injected a vital strain of realism into an issue far too critical to founder on green dreams.” Discuss.
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Nuke bites man
The Nuclear Energy Agency — an international agency created by the OECD to "assist its Member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" — issues a report claiming that nuclear power is […]
