@peterbrannen
Mammal. New📘THE STORY OF CO2 "Hugely compelling" -NYTimes "History on a heroic scale" -Times (UK) "Brilliant and epic" -Kate Marvel https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-story-of-co2-is-the-story-of-everything-peter-brannen?variant=42382167638050
For starters, the startup ecosystem is maybe just not set up for it. They're overcapitalized on equity and have no good access to debt. Founders want quick exits--with high returns--for successful tech tests. But climate tech is just infrastructure, which is long-duration and medium-return.
Very excited for my friend John's timely book to come out, which I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of in the research stage while overlapping at the Library of Congress. Pre-order today!
New header courtesy of @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social. Was hugely flattered The Ends of the World played some role in inspiring maybe the most succinct account of why geology is soul-altering
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYEv...
Hyperpolitics by Anton Jäger
Good (very short) book for understanding why everything got weird and bad
wrote about the Strait of Hormuz in my new book
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
🗣️Western Mass folks!👇
Ha! Yes, a developing story
Things should clear up for the morning commute once silicate weathering has been shut down for long enough that slowly accumulating volcanic CO2 catastrophically deglaciates the entire planet
Wow, they just upgraded the forecast from 1-2 feet to a runaway snow-albedo feedback and 60 million year-long low-latitude global glaciation
and/or the growth of the sedimentary rock record/reservoir of organic carbon on continental crust www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Science journalist Peter Brannen describes the interesting patterns we see across all scales of nature, going back to the origins of life itself.
What! That’s bizarre, let me ask my publisher about it
strangely crucial to the oil industry too, these bizarre ancient teeth predictably change colors at higher temperatures and are used by oil geologists to figure out whether organic-rich rocks have been cooked enough to generate petroleum
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
Diagnosable TDS
Thanks Brendon!
And along with @laurapoppick.bsky.social's Strata, great to see so much love for geology among the nominees!
Honored to see The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything named as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize www.latimes.com/events/festi...
Ha, glad someone else made the connection, that’s what I think everytime I see it
Maybe a stupid question but is there a reason Claude AI went with Kurt Vonnegut’s drawing of an asshole from Breakfast of Champions for its logo?
Indeed
Interesting! The most recent papers I had seen on the Wrangellia LIP only mention the bits in the PNW
Anyways, wrote about it a couple years ago www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
It’s a reminder that whataver world follows our experiment on the planet it could be as vastly different as the one that preceded this Triassic climate spasm, and that our legacy will live on, not only in the fossil record, but perhaps even in the topography of the mountains of the far future.
Curiously though life on Earth was completely transformed by the event: dinosaurs spread across the Earth--perhaps hopscotching across the transiently wetter landscapes of Pangaea--while modern mammals, conifers, stony corals, and even phytoplankton emerged from the wreckage.
Life took a major hit in this, the “Carnian Pluvial Event”, with strange groups that had survived the greatest mass extinction of all time, 20 million years earlier (the also-CO2-driven End-Permian) taking major hits.
