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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Finally
Oy. Things are, as usual, happening faster than I can blog them. Before it gets too old, let me be the last person in the green blogosphere to link to this remarkable article in Newsweek. It’s about the history of the global warming denial industry. It’s not remarkable because it uncovers any new information. Those […]
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A short guide
Lots of economists and analysts on both sides of the aisle prefer a carbon tax to a cap-and-trade system, but political reality is such that the former is exceedingly unlikely and the latter has become all but inevitable. So it’s time to focus on doing it well. One question that came up in the panel […]
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How many more deaths will we tolerate?
About 4am yesterday, a mine in Utah collapsed, trapping six miners 1,500 feet underground, almost three and a half miles from the mine’s entrance. No one knows if they are alive; there’s been no contact since the collapse. Right now, rescuers are trying to drill through the mountainside to reach them. Progress has been slow, […]
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YearlyKos: I’m ugly and boring
Hilarious. I was interviewed, briefly and randomly, by the Talking Points Memo guys, who were wandering around YearlyKos (and related parties) doing short video clips. Their video coverage is here. Apparently I was so boring I didn’t make the cut. Guess it’s true what they say: I’ve got a face for blogging!
