The holidays are just around the corner and if you’re looking for some great books, these were my favorites this fall: The story of CO₂… - @peterbrannen.bsky.social 20,000 Leagues under the Sea- Jules Verne Life After Cars - @thewaroncars.bsky.social Careless People - Sarah Wynn Williams 1/2

I've been covering the Colorado River since 2017 and I gotta say my takeaway after this year's Las Vegas gathering: In my time on the beat, it's never looked more bleak.

A couple of years ago I read "The Ends of the World", by @peterbrannen.bsky.social, and it was literally life-changing. I'm now reading his last book, "The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything". Best book of the year.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

If you’re looking for a last minute holiday gift for the Earth science/climate person in your life, I would never say any of these things about my book but other people have www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

If you’re looking for a last minute holiday gift for the Earth science/climate person in your life, I would never say any of these things about my book but other people have www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

TR has a package of stories up today recalibrating the AI hype, exploring what it will deliver & where it's coming up short: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...

Touched to see the great British novelist Kate Atkinson giving my book some love (although the scorpions were as big as dogs!)

This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. I wrote about the biggest change to global climate politics since its passage: The climate story *is* the China story now, and how countries pursue decarbonization is itself a wager on China’s future. heatmap.news/climate/pari...

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Peter’s book also introduced me to a theory about the origin of life on earth that really blew my skull

And buy Peter's latest book. The writing in here as as impressive as anything I've ever read. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

🧪📡 Fantastic piece, and feeds into #SETI #technosignature ideas too

Wrote strange a story for @sciam.bsky.social about where on Earth you'd put a time capsule if you wanted to find it as far in future as possible. Maybe bury a laser-etched zircon in Namibia and hope it erodes out of central mountain range of Pangaea Ultima? www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

The gorgeous 🇬🇧 cover in the wild!

About to hop on a podcast to talk about something I like thinking about much more than depressing climate change stuff: the Late Neoproterozoic Shuram-Wonoka carbon isotope excursion

One of the creepier geology papers I've read was about how in the end-Permian mass extinction (which is characterized by extreme volcanic CO2 outgassing and warming) the actual kill mechanism might have been when pulses of sulfur aerosols masking the warming rained out and the temperature spiked

"The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not" @peterbrannen.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com -->> www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“If we drive the carbon cycle far enough from equilibrium, it will respond in kind, no matter how hard we try to subordinate it to the market, or tame it with panicked legislation.” - @peterbrannen.bsky.social (quote from Peter’s excellent new book)

Nice explainer about CO2 - wiyh some nice examples from the geological record. @peterbrannen.bsky.social

Climate effects aside, just the sheer scale of our emissions are astounding. Humanity makes more CO2 every year than all other materials we produce combined

The hardening Beltway conventional wisdom about the tolerability of 3°C of warming (leaving aside the possibility of carbon cycle feedbacks kicking that up to around 4°C) is crazy. thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...

It's the time of year when I think people are posting maps of isostatic rebound again.

The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now

Just began @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book and already came across this gem 🤌 „If you really wanna have good fun, be a geologist. Geologists often know 2 or 3 languages and they always know the best places to drink.“ followed by a shout-out to IODP, the JR, and Exp399. Promising start! 1/2

if you’re a Boston Brahmin, Masshole or even a chowderhead, come out to the Boston Book Festival today at 4:30 for my panel with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social on placing humanity in its geologic and cosmic context bostonbookfestival2025.sched.com/event/28bfb/...

I listened to this on the commute today. Highly recommend. Brannen and Wyman both influenced my chapter in Future of Denial on the history of Earth told through CO₂ levels

Had tons of fun talking to @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the past few hundred million years or so for his great Tides of History podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It can not be exaggerated just how wild the climate of the Pleistocene was in which we evolved. All of recorded history is in pixel at the very top of the very last zigzag, all the way to the right of this graph. From a new paper on sea level over past 4.5 million yrs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.

Really enjoyed this @asherelbein.bsky.social story on maybe the most enigmatic and controversial rocks in the geologic record: the bizarre, premature-by-a-billion-years-or-so fossils[?] of large complex life[?] in Gabon. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...

This book is so good

They shouldn't have been allowed to do this imho

I’m really into @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s new book. If you’ve most read anything I’ve written in recent years, it’s indebted to his prior book The Ends of the World

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating line in new Hülse & Ridgwell paper about how our gigantic pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere--after tens of thousands of years of warming--could kick off an overcorrection of organic carbon burial in the oceans and hasten the descent into an ice age www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pretty tickled that my book was reviewed alongside @peterbrannen.bsky.social's brilliant "The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything" — and in Germany, no less, for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Peak moment, that.

If you’re in midcoast Maine today I’ll be shucking for my brother’s oyster farm at the Pemaquid Oyster Festival, come on by and say hi

“The Arctic Ocean became a net CO2 source…contributing to prolonged carbon input, temperature rise and ocean acidification during the PETM. These findings highlight potential major perturbations to Arctic carbon cycling under future climate change.”

Had a fun, in-depth talk about my new book on the Decouple podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEq3...

NEW SEASON of Tides of History starting soon, so stoked! Oct 9: The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus Oct 16: Living and Working in Imperial Babylon Oct 23: Interview with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on his new book Oct 30: The Ancient Egyptian Economy Nov 6: Interview with Eric Cline

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 ⚒️📚

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