David Roberts

Vox

Guest

Writer at Vox, focusing on energy and climate change

David Roberts on KCRW

Partisanship is more powerful than science, even for conservative environmentalists. They don’t buy warnings about an existential crisis.

Republicans look at climate change and see… Democrats

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President Trump on down react to the enormous disaster.

How has the response to Hurricane Harvey been?

President Trump on down react to the enormous disaster.

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