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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Turns out the world’s first “clean coal” plant is a backdoor subsidy to oil producers
The CCS project in Saskatchewan, Canada, is providing cheap CO2 to oil fields but expensive power to ratepayers.
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A way to get power to the world’s poor without making climate change worse
A new paper argues that it's now possible to bring power to those who lack it in a way that reduces climate pollution.
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“Climate change” vs. “global warming”? It really doesn’t matter
Quit with the linguistic navel-gazing. What actually counts is power. (As explained in a dozen tweets.)
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How American journalists deal with climate deniers
Political reporters still treat climate denialism as though it's a normal campaign position. What's the alternative?
