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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Sigh
Wow. The Nation has elected to print some flat-footed, idiotic global warming skepticism from Alexander Cockburn, who has made a media career out of insulting people and generally being a dick. I don’t have time to get into it — see previous post — but you can check with Sir Oolius for some initial debunkery. […]
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This week
Yeargh! This week sucks. We’re having a whole series of planning/strategy meetings at Grist, which have eaten all my blogging time. There’s a conference on ethics and climate change starting tomorrow at UW that I intended to go to but now probably can’t. The WGIII IPCC report comes out on Friday, and I was supposed […]
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All abruptly
John Browne, who’s been head of oil giant BP for 41 years, abruptly resigned yesterday. Browne grew the lackluster company into the second largest oil company in the world; he also was among the first oil executives to proactively acknowledge the danger of climate change and encourage action. The resignation came after Browne lied to […]
