One Percent Brighter

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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1:13:47

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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Visualize Ocean Intelligence

A speculative history of the AI-enabled future of marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Feb 6 • Quico Toro

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A move 37 for the ocean

What AI could do for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Feb 2 • Quico Toro

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January 2026

The Carbon Ocean Loop

The gas in your tank didn't use to be dinosaurs. It used to be phytoplankton.

Jan 31 • Quico Toro

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