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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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  • And no, global warming doesn’t change that

    As far as I can tell, there are precisely three environmentalists of any note who have come to support nuclear power: James Lovelock, Stewart Brand, and Patrick Moore. It’s become something of a parlor game for journalists to mix and match those three names in an effort to claim that there’s a "growing debate" among […]

  • Gets into it

    Clearly nobody slipped this guy the memo on the necessity for bipartisanship on climate change:

  • Bush rewrites history again

    An ABC reporter asks President Bush the long-overdue question: you’ve said the “fundamental debate” is about whether global warming is natural or man-made. Scientists overwhelmingly say it’s man-made. Do you still doubt that, and if so, based on what? Bush says: “I don’t know where you got that quote from.” President Bush, March 29, 2006: […]

  • Watch Obama’s video

    Tomorrow morning, Barack Obama will officially kick off his presidential run. Here’s a preview video: