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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Defense in the NYT
A letter to the editor in today’s NYT: Discussions and action on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions anywhere and everywhere in the world are hugely important. But when referring to electricity and natural gas use at Mr. Gore’s Tennessee home, it’s unreasonable to contrast them with use in an “average” American home. Obviously anyone […]
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Did you know ‘biodiversity’ means gay marriage?
Over at The New Republic, Brad Plumer has a nice rundown on the whole green evangelical “creation care” thing. Most of it is probably familiar to readers of this site, but some bits are worth pulling out. First of all, there’s … this: “I’ve learned the hard way that, for instance, you can’t use the […]
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Bush to cut funding for geothermal
The Bush administration wants to eliminate federal support for geothermal power just as many U.S. states are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions and raise renewable power output. A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as […]
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Two things that aren’t green, but rule
Just to give you some respite from all the, you know, earth-this earth-that:
