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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There’s one
Chris Dodd comes out in support of Dingell’s carbon tax proposal. Think anybody else will?
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Greenland ice melting faster than predicted
Guess it ends with a bang after all: The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the […]
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Friday music blogging: The Apples in Stereo
I’ve found a theme song for Grist! The Apples in Stereo are 15-year veterans of the Elephant Six collective down in Georgia — chipper lo-fi psych pop stuff. This is from their new album New Magnetic Wonder. I’ve never been a huge follower of that scene, but I like this new album well enough, and […]
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Norway bans generic green terms from auto advertising
This is funny and kind of awesome: No car can be “green,” “clean” or “environmentally friendly,” according to some of the world’s strictest advertising guidelines set to enter into force in Norway next month. “Cars cannot do anything good for the environment except less damage than others,” Bente Oeverli, a senior official at the office […]
