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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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  • More interesting than it sounds

    In case you hadn’t heard, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is suing the Bush administration’s Council on Environmental Quality for refusing to reply with its FOIA request for records relating to global warming science and policy. Surely the administration isn’t hiding anything …

  • It doesn’t work out

    There’s a lot of talk about geoengineering lately, specifically around climate change. We can just send up space mirrors or seed the atmosphere with sulfur or some such, right? Then we can just keep on keepin’ on. Sprol has a great post on a huge geoengineering project that didn’t turn out quite as well as […]

  • Aerosols

    Andrew’s mentioned this stuff before, but if you want to learn more about aerosols and their role in climate change (and climate change modeling), RealClimate has a nice post up on it.

  • The system changes or we’re all screwed

    Having finally gotten the memo that the debate on climate change science is over, conservatives now need a new attack on green advocates. It appears they’re reverting to an old standby: hypocrisy. Watch (via Hugg) as FOX News’ Sean Hannity lays out the charge against Al Gore: The hypocrisy attack on environmentalists is extremely common, […]