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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Notable quotable
“A major component of Global Warming is to reduce population because people are seen as part of the problem. And, of course, population control includes abortion. It also includes same-sex relations because they do not cause offspring.” — Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council
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EDF + CEOs: C&T A-OK
Here’s the new Environmental Defense Fund ad — on which they spent $2 million — featuring CEOs stumping for a cap-and-trade bill. Apparently the director told them: “I don’t care what you do, as long as you make some kind of hand gesture.”
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Bush aide: Slightly less than doubling of GDP is ‘recessionary’
Need more proof that Bush will never, ever, in a million gazillion years, sign a decent climate bill? Here’s what his right-hand hack Jim Connaughton had to say ($ub. req’d) about the relatively tepid Lieberman-Warner bill: James Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, cited EPA’s worst-case modeling projections for the […]