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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Inside the mind of the skeptics
Matt Yglesias flags a … novel argument about energy from Michael Novak and says this: It’s interesting how money impacts political ideas. One doubts that any of these various rightwingers were actually humming along and then got bribed by energy companies to come up with the outlandish conservative arguments you hear on this score. Rather, […]
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More Cloud Cult obsession
… not to be all obsessive, but why isn’t everyone on the planet listening to this new Cloud Cult album? I’m afraid if I keep playing it around the clock my wife is going to strangle me. Here’s another good song off it, called “Alien Christ”: Here are the lyrics: You’re invited to the party […]
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A guest essay from Environmental Defense
The following is a guest essay from Bill Chameides, the Chief Scientist at Environmental Defense. He maintains a blog on global warming at climate411.org. —– Some folks think global warming is best fought through a federally-imposed tax on greenhouse gas emissions — often called a carbon tax. The government would use the additional tax dollars […]
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Roger Pielke Jr. is at it again
Based on a bit of methodology that sounds like a bad joke — only he never tells us the punch line — Roger Pielke Jr. ventures the "hypothesis" that An Inconvenient Truth is "alarmist." Perhaps Republicans will call him to testify about it.
