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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NYT columnist gets it right
Paul Krugman is generally on target, so it’s not surprising that when he turns his gaze to ethanol, he nails it. He points out that despite considerable pre-release hype, the administration’s SOTU "energy plan" consists of little more than a reliance on ethanol. After reciting the by-now-numbingly-familiar drawbacks of corn ethanol, he writes: Still, doesn’t […]
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Shocker
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Turns out global trade in ethanol disadvantages developing nations. Who coulda guessed. What are the options open to developing nations? You think they’ll just pull out of global ethanol trade, ’cause of how unfair it is? Um, no. They’ll raze their rainforests and carbon sinks, pushing […]
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So many goodies, so little time
Another week or two has passed, and you know what that means … links out the tuckus! (Speaking of overload.) Let’s start with three Washington Post columnists, in descending order of quality. First up we have Warren Brown, who compliments the president on understanding the oil problem but breaks the bad news — to him […]
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An expose of climate ‘profiteers’
Joel Makower takes note of a new concern on the wackadoo Wall Street Journal editorial page: companies that plan to … avert your eyes, ye of tender constitution! … profit from limits on carbon emissions. Perhaps we should mail some smelling salts to WSJ headquarters?
