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Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat
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Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat

Award-winning science journalist takes us through deep time

This week, award-winning science writer Peter Brannen returns to Decouple to explore the 4.5 billion-year story of carbon dioxide on Earth. Grounding our discussion is his new book, The Story of CO2 Is The Story of Everything. From the alien world of the Hadean eon to humanity's emergence as the "pyromaniac ape," Brannen reveals how this trace gas has s…

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