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Dad, partner, thalassophile. reecepacheco.com Supporting and investing in early stage entrepreneurs at the ocean-climate nexus via @PropellerVC. PropellerVC.com
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Click here to say no to new offshore drilling off the California coast (and Gulf and AK) surfrider.advocacyai.com/action/1H4hE...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Every step in offshore oil and gas drilling presents a threat to our coastal and ocean environment and our tourism and recreation economy. In California alone we have a long record of spills that demonstrate this. Here's a list of the major spills...
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Our built environment isn't ready for the changes we've made to our natural environment.
VIDEO: 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 Tens of thousands displaced by floods in Thailand and Malaysia

Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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With a mixed-results at COP30 - i.e. good intentions but no concrete plans for the “transition away from fossil fuels” - don’t give up.

Let’s remember the progress made since the Paris Agreement and the options ahead of us. That’s the message of the image below
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Current mood
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Simple, yet scary graph from @climatetown.bsky.social.
August 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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See: Climate.
Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”

Is equivalent to asking

“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”

www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
www.noaa.gov
February 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Annual must-read.
My annual decarbonization presentation is here.

200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
TFW you get the world's largest bank (JP Morgan!) to research and share your #ocean #climate investment thesis: www.linkedin.com/posts/kelly-...
Kelly Belcher on LinkedIn: Ocean-climate innovation: Key trends in blue tech
The ocean plays a critical role in planetary health, yet its security is vastly underfunded. Exciting innovations in marine carbon capture and sustainable…
www.linkedin.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🌊 2024 reached the highest extra-polar annual average sea surface temperature on record.
🌡️ The mean extra-polar SST was 20.87°C, 0.51°C above the 1991–2020 average.
▶️ All details, charts and data in the Global Climate Highlights 2024: bit.ly/40kQpcz
January 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes.

As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬

Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190
January 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A few things that have become habit at year's end:
January 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Unsurprising, yet still astonishing. ““Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/s...
A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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If we look at cumulative CO₂ fluxes over the industrial era, the ocean is the only thing helping keep atmospheric CO₂ from rising even higher. The terrestrial biosphere is just taking up what it has emitted. 🌊

essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
December 21, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Good thread on the inevitability of offshore wind power from one of our portfolio co’s CEO.
1/n:
2024 has been a downer of a year for wind energy, especially offshore. But there is one bright spot that no one seems to be talking about-
According to Ember, in 2024, wind energy may just beat out nuclear to claim the title of delivering the most clean electrons worldwide (excluding hydro).
December 20, 2024 at 4:25 PM
In my experience with early stage pitch decks, the better the renderings, or the fancier the video animations, or the more stock photography a pitch has, the less real progress the company has made.
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Seeing all of the scientists I follow here heading to #AGU24 and bummed I can’t make it!
December 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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40% of the mass of everything transported by a ship in 2023 was a fossil fuel.

That stat paired with this new study shines a pretty harsh spotlight on how obscenely bad-faith the right-wing concern trolling around offshore wind + whales is

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
UW study finds leading cause of whale deaths
New research shows that the top threat to whales around the globe has changed. But it wouldn't take much to reduce the risk, researchers say.
www.seattletimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.

Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.

People underestimate the Pacific.
December 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Curious how many folks here are using #AI notetakers or similar tools? Show of hands?
December 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Starting to see a new wave of startups using #AI / ML in #maritime applications -- wave/weather forecasting, maritime domain awareness, #biodiversity monitoring etc. Exciting. If you know people working in this space, send 'em my way.
December 5, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Got to witness an incredible demonstration of a #climatetech startup today.Team is defying the odds. Lucky to get to see steel in person and imagine the impact they could have.
December 4, 2024 at 2:02 AM
“The magnitude of the ocean's influence is bewilderingly large. In the North Atlantic, ocean currents shift 1 petawatt of heat from the equator northward to the pole. To put it into context, that is around 50 times the energy use of all human-kind.” www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feat...
Ocean in Motion
How the ocean’s complex and chaotic physics define life on our planet
www.whoi.edu
December 2, 2024 at 9:33 PM