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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Now he’s lobbying America on climate change
Am I huffing glue, or is this a real story? Tony Blair is to devote himself to fighting global warming when he quits power this summer by promoting an American rethink on the Kyoto protocol. Tony Blair decided the best time to lobby America for a “rethink” on global warming is after he’s divested of […]
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McCain and Lieberman have it
McCain and Lieberman have an op-ed on global warming in The Boston Globe today. It’s good enough, but this bit — no one will be surprised to hear — rubs me the wrong way: How can Congress close the deal to prevent catastrophic global warming while it still has the chance? In the same way […]
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Czech pres. isn’t on board with the climate change thing
Václav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, thinks the whole global warming thing is a hoax: Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so. It is unfair to refer to the United Nations panel. IPCC is not a scientific body: it’s a political institution, a kind […]
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A new green blog
Joel Makower wrote to let me know about an intriguing new blog on Greenbiz: "Turning the Ship." It’s about greening the U.S. economy, and features posts from smarty-pants types from Yale, Harvard, Pew, and other smarty-pant hotbeds. Check it out. (Hopefully I can convince Joel to kill the frame. Didn’t frames in web pages die […]
