“While the Texas oil economy relies on the truth of geology, many of its inhabitants remain stubbornly resistant to its charms.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“It’s] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide—and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose—coincided with the mass extinctions,” writes University of Washington paleontologist and End-Permian mass extinction expert Peter Ward. “Here is the driver of extinction.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share
“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only by the… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“That our age is thought to be less epic than those worlds on offer at natural history museums is only an illusion.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“The epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in earth history.… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
“As should be clear by now, perhaps no national project has had more of an incidentally beneficial effect on science than the Interstate Highway… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
