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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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  • Oh, China, China, China

    First, I see this: China warned on global warming effects And then this: China detains environmental activist Guess he shouldn’t have warned them!

  • Who’s the biggest fattest liberal?

    Over at National Review, Deroy Murdock is eager to assure his fellow right-wingers that Rudolph Giuliani is no liberal! What’s his evidence? Why, when he was mayor Giuliani doused the city with toxic insecticide! He built dirty power plants in poor parts of town! He privatized the management of Central Park! No liberal would ever […]

  • Is it green to recycle ideas?

    Is it me, or does this sound an awwwful lot like this?

  • Green polls reveal lazy bastards

    Joel Makower has a fascinating roundup of recent green poll results. He concludes: So, what do we know that we didn’t know pre-Earth Day? Not much. It’s business as usual: Americans want clean, affordable, and care-free solutions to climate change and every other environmental challenge. But don’t ask most of them to change their habits, […]