The Story of CO2 Is the Story of EverythingPeter Brannen
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
by Peter Brannen · first published 2025
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I'm in the middle of reading Peter Brannen's The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything—it's excellent and goes deep into the (bio)geochemistry of Earth—and he presents a good case for a metabolism-first development of life, taking advantage of "a disequilibrium that needed to be relieved…
on “Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks” ↗I hugely recommend reading Peter Brannen's The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything. I picked it up thinking it'd be a good book about climate change—it is—but it's so much more. It's an excellent journey through our planet's (bio)geochemistry, and really gives you a sense for the…
on “Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected” ↗On that topic, I enjoyed this romp through geologic history using CO2 as the lens: The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455255/the-story-of-co2-is-t...