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Quico Toro
Personal blog · onepercentbrighter.comscienceeconomics
Quico Toro writes One Percent Brighter, a personal blog at onepercentbrighter.com about science and economics. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on countries' greenhouse gas emissions and on an ocean plankton bloom idea for pulling carbon into the seafloor. Commenters cite them as data and as a source for their own points, without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A better climate substack.
What Hacker News says?
I want the US to stop being the designated country which gets blamed whenever anything goes wrong. What am I allowed to do in order to make that happen, O European Master? You're doing it again in this comment with regard to greenhouse gas emissions. Ours have been dropping. See https://www.onepercentbrighter.com/p/who-emits-the-most-co I'm tired of being the designated punching bag.
Comment linking /p/who-emits-the-most-co
on “Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers”Submitted Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI heard about this[1] recently, essentially spurring a massive plankton bloom to capture carbon where it ends up on the sea floor and becomes future oil deposits in a few millenia. The nice thing about it is that it doesn't require global cooperation. [1] https://www.onepercentbrighter.com/p/the-no-bullshit-way-to-... Edit: I should probably link where I heard about it to give credit to someone who deserves it https…
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on “2025 was the third hottest year on record”