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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I’m sure whoever has the best argument will win, right?
There’s an interesting piece today in CongressNow on the debate over auctioning vs. giving away credits in a cap-and-trade system. (CN requires a subscription, which you can get for the low, low price of $1500 or so. I’m on the 10-day evaluation thing, so enjoy these pieces while they come, ’cause there’s no way Grist […]
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It ain’t working
The Washington Post has a piece about Obama’s attempts to split the difference (thread the needle? straddle the fence?) on the subject of liquid coal. Y’all are probably sick of hearing me talk about this (watch for an op-ed soon!), so I’ll outsource the making of the basic point to Brian Beutler and Brad Plumer, […]
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Random observation of the day
I read a lot of arguments about coal in a carbon-constrained world, given my, um, obsession with it, and I frequently run across these two claims, sometimes in the very same article: There’s so much coal, and renewables are so far from competitive, that it’s not realistic to think we could live without it. Coal […]
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Friday music blogging: Midlake
I missed music blogging last week, and I don’t want to miss it again, but I gotta hurry — I need to run to my kid’s parent-teacher conference. (Yes, they have those in preschool — WTF?) This song is from one of my favorite albums of last year: The Trials of Van Occupanther, by a […]
