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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coastal residents of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway (Colorado), I'll be talking carbon over all of Earth history at CU-Boulder tonight at 6:30 with my good friend @rboyle31.bsky.social calendar.colorado.edu/event/the-st...

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[Axios voice]: Here's why it matters

Osman et al. 2021 plot of global temperature since the last glacial maximum, and potential future warming

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log̷o, reanimated dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry to moderately lib out but I don't think the President should be allowed to run mafia protection rackets with federal disaster relief funds

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Teaching a Stone to Talk and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek are wonderful

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP to Annie Dillard, whose work frequently left me unable to speak sensibly for several minutes after reading it. This essay, This Is The Life, was my entry point for her work

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

[Norman Rockwell town meeting guy]: I still think 1.5°C of warming is bad

Screenshot of paper showing 1.5C is catastrophic for coral reefs

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To be fair there were some very prominent climate scientists claiming otherwise until very recently, and were even labeling arguments to the contrary "doomerism"

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this paper essentially argues that, we'll probably skip the next low in northern hemisphere summer insolation in 50,000 years, and have to wait a further 50,000 (and depending on who you talk to its still unclear whether we already skipped one in historical times)

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just curious, why the 5-95% range shown for the low and medium scenarios but not the high one?

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am not the biggest fan of the way resources are being allocated in society at the moment

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't know, that Vishnu schist is pretty juicy

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The only podcast where I was made to feel safe talking about the End-Triassic Mass Extinction and Dwayne Schintzius in the same episode. Thank you 🫡

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Must be humiliating to the administration that the geologic core of the North American continent is the Canadian Shield

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The specific chapter that's from is very phrenological and weird

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A few years go I came across this table in an anthology edited by Stephen LeBlanc, sympathetic to that narrative, where the author admits the most violent society in the archeologic record of North America was 19th c pioneer Wyoming, where 80% of the bodies were riddled with gunshots and stab wounds

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it's pretty unnerving seeing in real-time everything you see in the geologic record from ancient episodes of rapid warming, from jökulhlaups and flood deposits to carbon cycle feedbacks from wildfires and permafrost, to polar amplification of warming, to ocean deoxygenation...

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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just finished reading this and I’m very tempted to start from the beginning again. @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s ability to see, understand, and write about the big picture is outstanding. ‘The Story of CO2’ should be required reading in geoscience departments, and not just for the students

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wow this is incredibly kind Zoltán, thank you!

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Gigaton scale carbon removal--probably not going to happen!

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just as you no longer live in the climate regime of your youth, you no longer live in the political economy of your childhood, and the signifiers and coalitions of that lost age persist only as habit

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Dr. Isabel Dove @isabeldiatom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m reading this now and it’s so so good! A really beautiful and thorough exploration of why burning fossil fuels formed on geologic timescales is a problem on human timescales

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I hardly ever read Earth Science books because that’s Work but I made an exception for this one and I’m very glad I did, it’s such a great perspective on how our planet works

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

enjoy the total eclipses while you can, they're going to start getting pretty scarce in 620 million years and be all over in 1.2 billion

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love this book so much. It is a fascinating, delightful read, and so inspiring to me as a writer. And I would say that even if bits of my review weren't on the front AND back covers

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok, fun time is over.

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If that doesn't do it for you, here are some nice things that people who aren't related to me have said about the book.

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm still waiting for a German translation for The Ends of the World!

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Going to private equity myself and split my property and operations into two different companies and make myself pay rent to myself, which will force my operations side to get leaner and meaner while I get rich off the passive income. Apologies in advance for the decline in quality of my work tho

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Strong “buy”

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The UK paperback looks great too, have gotten very lucky with cover designs

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

paperback for The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything is officially out. It got good reviews and I'm pretty sure it's not like any other climate book you've read. Below is my best attempt to summarize the broad themes of the book. If any of this interests you pls buy so I can continue doing this

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A quote I always return to is from University of Chicago geoscientist David Archer: “I have a feeling that by the time we get close to 2°C we’ll think it’s pretty insane we ever thought that that was a target to shoot for.”

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These Silicon Valley transhumance-ists sure do a lot of talking and not a lot of moving goat herds between seasonal grazing lands

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"The northern permafrost system has the potential to shift from a minor carbon sink to a substantial carbon source within a few decades. Whether this source becomes large enough to support a self-sustaining climate feedback is uncertain." I say let's risk it, what the heck

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