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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A nice profile
In the latest issue of Seed, Chris Mooney has a nice profile of legendary climate scientist James Hansen. Here’s the nut: Yet Hansen isn’t afraid of value judgments either. With increasing stridency, he has been articulating a very political, very moral premise: We can’t take much more human-induced greenhouse warming if we want to preserve […]
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Top 10 urban planning and development sites
Planetizen, the unfortunately named but eminently useful urban planning and development site, has released its list of the top 10 planning and development sites for 2007. FYI.
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National groups says it will stick with creation care, thanks
In case you hadn’t heard, the National Association of Evangelicals told James Dobson and his merry band of retrograde knuckle-draggers to stuff it. In so many words. In response to Dobson et. al’s complaints about Rich Cizik’s efforts to make "creation care" a central evangelical concern, NAE’s board "reaffirmed a 2004 position paper, ‘For the […]
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Global warming is going to f*ck us all kinds of up
A new Gallup poll finds that "most Americans believe it will be a decade or more before the manifestations of global warming begin to wreak havoc." Meanwhile, from Seth Borenstein’s account of the leaked draft of the IPCC WGII report (which I wrote about here): “Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems […]
