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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NYT author discusses recent story on climate ‘centrism’
On Tuesday, NYT environment reporter Andy Revkin published a piece called “Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming.” The following day, I wrote a highly critical response: "Centrist dog food." With typical graciousness, Revkin offered to discuss the piece, so I took him up on it and we fired up a Skype chat. […]
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Cyclone Sidr
There’s a category 4 storm headed toward a low-lying area Bangladesh. It’s still gaining strength, and could hit land within 24 hours. People in the know say this very well could turn into a worst case scenario. See Chris Mooney for more.
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Below you saw the details of Grist’s upcoming presidential forum with Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Dennis Kucinich. Each candidate will come out, speak for about 10 minutes about the challenge of climate change, and then answer questions from me and Mary Nichols (of CARB). Naturally I have some questions in mind, but I’d love […]
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NYT’s Andy Revkin pens another stinker on the so-called ‘center’ of the climate debate
“This wind is extremist!” Andy Revkin has been doing such great stuff on his Dot Earth climate blog, I wanted to ignore the story he published yesterday in the NYT: “Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming.” Pretend it never happened. But I can’t. It’s just … awful. The preposterous claim at the […]
