Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his brilliant new book, The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World plus so much more. I am also a huge fan of his earlier book, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions.
Peter Brannen is a science journalist who specializes in planetary science. His stories cover deep time, astrobiology, paleoclimate, paleontology, geology, geochemistry, marine biology, the philosophy of science, and evolutionary biology. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate, The Boston Globe, Aeon, and others. He was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and a 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow. Peter is a placental mammal, aerobic heterotroph and Boston Celtics fan.
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