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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Very Brief Introduction

Climate strategy, TL;DR edition

Jun 16 • Quico Toro

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Against Climate Narratives

If you think you understand what's going on with the climate, think again

Jun 15 • Quico Toro

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Thomas Piketty's global envirodictatorship sucks

File under: ideas so crazy only an intellectual would take them seriously

Jun 10 • Quico Toro

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April 2026

Why phytoplankton's always going to win on cost

It's hard to compete with "free"

Apr 27 • Quico Toro

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Thinking about carbon dioxide like an accountant

Because the atmosphere doesn't care where the carbon dioxide came from

Apr 25 • Quico Toro

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The year we stopped talking about climate

Deep down, we know we have bigger fish to fry right now

Apr 22 • Quico Toro

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AI: To Boycott or Not to Boycott?

A recording from Quico Toro and Persuasion's live video

Apr 2 • Quico Toro, Persuasion, and Sam Kahn

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March 2026

How to write well with AI

Why people who pledge never to write with AI are telling on themselves

Mar 11 • Quico Toro

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February 2026

Emissions are rising because poverty is falling

An inconvenient truth about the fate of the Global South

Feb 18 • Quico Toro

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The Newton Trap

The Carbon Markets that matter don't exist yet

Feb 16 • Quico Toro

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James Hansen in plain English

If the planet really is warming significantly faster than mainstream scientists think, the next eighteen months are going to prove it.

Feb 12 • Quico Toro

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The grownups are catching onto phytoplankton carbon

Notes on a landmark report by some very serious people

Feb 9 • Quico Toro

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