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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Stephen Colbert on ‘wind turbine syndrome’
Colbert takes on the health effects of wind turbines ... including herpes.
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Climate science is Nate Silver and U.S. politics is Karl Rove
Republicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.
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Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
Michiganders voted down a requirement for 25 percent clean power by 2025. Blame a torrent of dirty-energy spending, which we'll be seeing more of in the future, says David Roberts.
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Exporting to China may not save the U.S. coal industry after all
American coal companies are banking on exports to China, but China's appetite for coal may not be as endless as they think.
