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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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“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...

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!

Annual must-read.

TFW you get the world's largest bank (JP Morgan!) to research and share your #ocean #climate investment thesis: www.linkedin.com/posts/kelly-...

🌊 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

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

A few things that have become habit at year's end:

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...

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...

Good thread on the inevitability of offshore wind power from one of our portfolio co’s CEO.

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.

Seeing all of the scientists I follow here heading to #AGU24 and bummed I can’t make it!

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...

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.

Curious how many folks here are using #AI notetakers or similar tools? Show of hands?

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.

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.

“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...

Shout out to all the American #climatetech #entrepreneurs out there at the #Thanksgiving table right now trying to explain to *that one uncle* why climate-tech isn’t dead just because of the new administration.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.