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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Offers boldest plan of any candidate
To call ex-Iowa governor Tom Vilsack a dark horse candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination is to underestimate the chances of dark-colored horses. But it seems to have freed him up to make some serious policy proposals. The energy plan (PDF) Vilsack unveiled on Tuesday is the ballsiest and most detailed any candidate from either […]
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She says the right thing
Hillary Clinton says the two questions she’s asked most often by young people are about stopping genocide in Darfur and about stopping global warming. Here she is at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire: (via Hugg)
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More fun with analogies!
I commend everyone to this article by Ben Adler on American Prospect, which addresses a perpetually overlooked strategy to reduce oil use and combat global warming: With all the focus on … “alternate energy programs,” too many [politicians] are ignoring a long-existing technology that, unlike, say, ethanol, already has the power to radically reduce our […]
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Fun with analogies
RealClimate has an unusually accessible and non-technical article explaining the difference between our knowledge of the contemporary climate (CSI) and our knowledge of paleoclimate (Cold Case). Well worth a read.
