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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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, Gristians! As someone who spends a great deal of time on the internet, I’m all too aware that most of what passes for dialogue on the web consists of slogans and nostrums, hurled back and forth with maximum vitriol. Virtually everyone I know who maintains a website has the same lament: the intelligent […]
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Tobis on the multidimensionality of the climate discussion
Readers know that I was mightily bothered by Andy Revkin’s attempt to classify certain thinkers as part of the "middle" of the climate debate. Some folks have attacked Revkin because they think one "side" — the "alarmist" side — is correct. That wasn’t quite my point. What I was trying to get at I just […]
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Jeremy Carl argues that coal will be with us for a long while
This is part one of a guest essay from Jeremy Carl, a Research Fellow at the Stanford University’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. A few weeks ago, I wrote a rather heated post keyed off an interview with Carl in Wired. He asked for an opportunity to respond; naturally I said yes. —– As […]
