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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Oil is down $10 today because …
… oh hell, nobody really knows. Note the journalist’s favorite way of implying causation without actually claiming it: the $10 drop happened “amid” political fighting over the bailout. It also happened amid the baseball playoffs, and amid my attempts to keep the dandelions from recolonizing my newly planted front yard. I shall cease weeding, lest […]
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Bailout fails in House
Listen Play “End of the World Party,” by Medeski Martin & Wood Looks like the bailout bill just now failed in the House, 205-228. The stock market is in freefall. Wheee! UPDATE: Apparently Republicans promised 80-90 votes and only came through with 66 … at which point nervous Dems started bailing. Some 90 Dems voted […]
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Where does McCain get his claim that nuclear will create 700,000 jobs?
In this post, I questioned John McCain’s claim that building 45 new nuclear reactors between now and 2030 would create 700,000 new jobs. I couldn’t find any numbers to back the claim up, and plenty of numbers that cast doubt on it. I contacted the campaign, and they sent along a 2004 study called "U.S. […]
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Avent v. Manzi re: global warming
Econ/placemaking blogger Ryan Avent (who, it turns out, also sings for Spoon) takes on everyone’s favorite Reasonable Conservative Jim Manzi on the subject of global warming, on BloggingHeads: Want to know why we’re doomed? Look no further than the first comment: I don’t think anybody is gonna do anything serious about gwarming anytime soon for […]
