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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Distributed energy: Driving the ghosts out of the machine
The electricity system is undergoing the same transition -- from centralized control to loosely coupled networks -- that has been seen in other areas of thought and technology. Also, Descartes something something!
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IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year … and that’s probably an underestimate
A new IMF study finds that global fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1.9 trillion a year. But the real truth could be more eye-popping yet.
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Giant investment bank taken over by hippie alarmists
A new report from banking giant HSBC confirms that the climate situation is grim and that most fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground. Then it says there's hope. Ha ha! Hope!
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What climate hawks can (and can’t) learn from public-health campaigns
The public health community has learned a lot about what motivates people to change behavior -- and what doesn't. Climate hawks, listen up.
