In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

I've started reading @peterbrannen.bsky.social's "The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything" and I'm going old school by underlining and jotting down notes in the margins here are a couple of excerpts in the section introducing silicate weathering and the carbon cycle ⚒️📚

”Efforts to offset carbon dioxide-caused warming with sunlight reduction would yield a very different climate, perhaps one unlike any seen before in Earth’s history”

3/ While America retreats from clean energy leadership, China has built end-to-end control of green supply chains: solar, batteries, EVs, wind turbines, green hydrogen. Over 75% of these projects are in Global South countries eager for this industrial capacity.

Geologists and data scientists are building system models of Earth’s ancient past like we’ve never seen before. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Feels weird promoting a book in this moment, but very touched by this thread in which Josh implicitly compares my work to the versatile game of Utah Jazz stretch-5 Lauri Markkanen

I have to say, did not realize that the path to Turkmenistan as a country was so direct

Wrote a long story for @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our best understanding of climate change over the entire half-billion-year-plus age of animals www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Thanks, Peter. Carbon is not just the whole story on Earth, it's (almost) the whole story for habitability of planets everywhere. I say "almost," because there are other greenhouse gases, like hydrogen, which can maintain habitability, but so far, CO2 is the only one with a known feedback that

This physical depletion of the crust is why climate scientists Roger Revelle and Hans Suess called the fossil fueled-industrialization of the world, “a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.”

Same goes for Ferris’ sweeping, lyrical tour of geobiology and ecology, Becoming Earth!

Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and beyond, come hear me talk about the past 4 billion years or so with my friend Phoebe, geologist extraordinaire, at the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Thursday 7pm

Whoa, kind of mind-blowing. The rocks above the end-Cretaceous mass extinction look different than the ones below it because of the ways that dinosaurs modified the environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Very excited to be part of this special issue on the state of climate science in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Wrote about the climate over the age of animal life, and the researchers working to piece together this epic story.

Not turtles, but carbon dioxide all the way down. Finished this audiobook. Might listen to it again in a few weeks. That good. www.audible.com/pd/B0BY3MLVN... @peterbrannen.bsky.social

Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

The ocean heat content averaged over the Gulf of Mexico is now the highest on record -- surpassing even the crazy-high values we saw just last year. bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/ @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Today's gyre report: More widening

I do wish, though, that stories about China's genuinely incredible clean energy push would at least flag somewhere that they also currently burn over 4 times more coal every year than the US ever did at its peak.

“In just five years, the U.N. says, the global demand for fresh water will exceed supplies by 40%.“

Looking forward to listening to @peterbrannen.bsky.social on @cerysmatthews.bsky.social BBCRadio programme this morning BBC Radio 6 Music - Cerys Matthews, with Dutch Interior in session share.google/hj7aRUxeViMT...

Illuminating thread, China starting to leave the West in the dust in innovation.

I'm so goddamn excited to read this book. @peterbrannen.bsky.social's first book THE ENDS OF THE WORLD is one of my favorite books on natural history, & I'm sure this new one is at least as good. @jaimealyse.bsky.social's review is (unsurprisingly) excellent. Go read it, and then get Peter's book!

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations? In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors. We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

Why can you breathe Earth’s atmosphere? The answer isn’t that the Amazon rainforest is producing excess oxygen on the surface. (It’s not.) It’s that fossil fuels exist. I didn’t understand this at all before reading @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s new book. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Grateful for this thoughtful and generous review! Captures some of the admitted madness of the book

Had the great pleasure of reviewing @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

Found some fossils underneath the Manhattan Bridge overpass (FUMBO)

I read and reviewed a new book about carbon dioxide for @newscientist.com that was super - read all about it here www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Some kind words from The Times (UK) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." This is wild. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Happy publication day to @peterbrannen.bsky.social ! The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything. And really, it is. This book is astounding, weaving together the whole history of Earth with our modern climate predicament. If you're into science, history, politics...check it out!

People. This book is SO GOOD. Truly -- I am about 70% the way through and the way Peter explains and synthesizes and expands and provides fresh perspective is truly stunning.

Popping up from holiday to remind you all that this fab book by @peterbrannen.bsky.social is out in just a few days! 📚

“Anyone who tells you they know what even 4° C of warming or more in a century will actually mean—or what that will look like on a planet gripped by ice ages for the past 3 million years—is full of shit. Especially if they’re an economist.” Wise words from @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s great book.

New review: "The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades" #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited about this. New Yorkers, come hear Peter talk about THE climate science (and also possibly economic and thermodynamic) book of the year.

In one week my book about carbon comes out, and here's some nice things some nice people have said about it. If you feel moved to do so, the link below provides a means of purchase. Thank you, that is all. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Wonderful, thank you Mr. musk, sir 🫡

Very important paper for my Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursion heads out there

"The fossil record reveals that plastic-like biopolymers, and by extension synthetic polymers, might persist for hundreds of millions of years"

George Packer hates this book! Buy it today! Out tomorrow wherever books are sold. Bookshop: shorturl.at/ykg4a Amazon: shorturl.at/0d7A3 Barnes & Noble: shorturl.at/EFA9I www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

“We find that all pathways may experience global shortages of up to 12 minerals by 2100 under the moderate scenario.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

But actually GM in the 70s (for transmission fluid not energy but still)

The Earth system must embrace moderation in its sensitivity to carbon emissions if it's to win back voters to its cause, my latest for Substack:

I cannot wait for this!

🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM #Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL

Lessons from Earth's past: "Ocean acidification therefore appears to be associated with three of the five largest extinction events in Earth history, highlighting the catastrophic ecological impact of major perturbations to the carbon cycle..." ⚒️🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...