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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Funny
Gore just appeared on stage with Leo DiCaprio. They discussed how the ceremony has gone green, and how everyone has a role to play in fighting climate change. DiCaprio kept asking him if there’s anything he wanted to announce. Finally, toward the end, Gore said he “hadn’t planned on doing this,” but the feelings of […]
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That awful song, too
It won’t be long now until we find out whether Gore’s movie gets an Oscar. Rumor on the street has it the man "some bloggers" apparently call the "Goreacle" will be playing a role at the awards ceremony outside his possible acceptance speech. Perhaps a showstopping song-and-dance extravaganza with melting glaciers and drowning polar bears! […]
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This is huge
Holy sh*t! This is huge: Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu of environmental measures, according to people […]
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Fun with evolutionary psychology
Let me enthusiastically recommend this essay on The Oil Drum by Nate Hagens. It’s about human beings’ discount rate, its evolutionary origins, and its implications for climate change and peak oil. In psychology, "discount rate" refers to the fact that we value events/rewards/dangers less the more distant they are in the future. We, less than […]
