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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Friday music blogging: The Budos Band
I know next to nothing about The Budos Band, and don’t really want to. I enjoy that they’re somewhat mysterious, as though they sprung through a spacetime warp direct from the 1970s, untainted by the 21st century. Their albums are The Budos Band I and The Budos Band II. This song is from the latter, […]
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Stewart on Gore
Here’s Jon Stewart (who’s got a spiffy new website) on Gore’s Nobel win:
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More on the nine ‘errors’ in Gore’s movie
As I said in my earlier post on the subject, there’s less than meets the eye to the story of the British judge that found nine "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth. Turns out they weren’t errors, just points the judge deemed different enough from the IPCC view to warrant explanatory materials — and the judge […]
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New poll finds public wants renewables over coal
And the bad news for coal / good news for humanity just keeps rolling in. According to a new poll (PDF): 75 percent of Americans — including 65 percent of Republicans, 83 percent of Democrats and 76 percent of Independents — would "support a five-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the United States […]