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: Alabama Shakes
No band in the last five years has gotten as much early hype as the Alabama Shakes. In fact, the hype was so thick that I put off listening to them for quite a while, unsure that the world needed another soul-rock-revival novelty band. But I finally got around to listening, and damn if they […]
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Big Oil dominates political attacks on Obama
Last month, almost 14,000 negative ads focused on energy. Why is energy dominating the right's campaign against Obama?
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Science alone can’t tell us how bad climate change will be
Predictions about the impacts of climate change involve politics as much as physics.
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The ‘reasonable middle’ on climate change
Climate impacts will be worse than skeptics say and not as bad as some climate hawks say -- but those impacts will still be really, really terrible. David Roberts wonders: Can a "reasonable middle" stance on climate change ever influence those with political power?
