Peter Brannen
@peterbrannen.bsky.social
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...
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's the time of year when I think people are posting maps of isostatic rebound again.
Over 3 billion years before this
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Over 3 billion years before this
The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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/...
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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/...
Ferran Adrià failed to achieve hot ice cream 15 years ago, that way madness lies
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ferran Adrià failed to achieve hot ice cream 15 years ago, that way madness lies
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
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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
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/...
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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/...
Some takeaways:
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Some takeaways:
I hope this will turn out well! Fair to say though that the jury's still out
September 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I hope this will turn out well! Fair to say though that the jury's still out
Found some fossils underneath the Manhattan Bridge overpass (FUMBO)
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Found some fossils underneath the Manhattan Bridge overpass (FUMBO)
Some kind words from The Times (UK) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
August 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Some kind words from The Times (UK) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
And on September 18th in Cambridge, MA I'll be speaking with geologist extraordinaire @phoebefossil.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And on September 18th in Cambridge, MA I'll be speaking with geologist extraordinaire @phoebefossil.bsky.social
The next night, August 28, I'll be in NYC and can't wait to talk to @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social about it at Powerhouse Books
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The next night, August 28, I'll be in NYC and can't wait to talk to @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social about it at Powerhouse Books
If you're in DC next Wednesday, August 27, I'm very excited to be talking about the book with my friend @rossandersen.bsky.social at the Wharf Politics & Prose
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you're in DC next Wednesday, August 27, I'm very excited to be talking about the book with my friend @rossandersen.bsky.social at the Wharf Politics & Prose
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...
August 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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 🫡
August 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wonderful, thank you Mr. musk, sir 🫡
But actually GM in the 70s (for transmission fluid not energy but still)
August 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
But actually GM in the 70s (for transmission fluid not energy but still)
Postcard from the Northeast Kingdom
July 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Postcard from the Northeast Kingdom
Pacers games looking like the Holocene
June 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Pacers games looking like the Holocene
Some nice words from David Wallace-Wells in the Times about my weird book that comes out August. I invite you to pre-order it, won’t you?
June 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Some nice words from David Wallace-Wells in the Times about my weird book that comes out August. I invite you to pre-order it, won’t you?
And the second by Quinn Slobodian on the truly anti-democratic, atomizing, and inhumane economic and geopolitical fever dreams that motivate the same group
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
And the second by Quinn Slobodian on the truly anti-democratic, atomizing, and inhumane economic and geopolitical fever dreams that motivate the same group
Two books I've read recently that have really helped clarify for me the bewildering moment we're living through:
The first, @adambecker.bsky.social's wonderful More Everything Forever, on the insipid, unphysical sci-fi dreams, and the half-baked moral philosophies inspiring our tech overlords
The first, @adambecker.bsky.social's wonderful More Everything Forever, on the insipid, unphysical sci-fi dreams, and the half-baked moral philosophies inspiring our tech overlords
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Two books I've read recently that have really helped clarify for me the bewildering moment we're living through:
The first, @adambecker.bsky.social's wonderful More Everything Forever, on the insipid, unphysical sci-fi dreams, and the half-baked moral philosophies inspiring our tech overlords
The first, @adambecker.bsky.social's wonderful More Everything Forever, on the insipid, unphysical sci-fi dreams, and the half-baked moral philosophies inspiring our tech overlords