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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Spot on David. Without two centuries of fossil fuels forcing warming into our biosphere, the planet would be ever so slowly shifting to a slight cooling phase. And Exxon and Chevron knew they were the cause of #climate warming many decades ago. #climatechangeisreal #ActOnClimate

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Big Anniversary! 40 years ago, I rode my bicycle out of Okoboji Iowa and began a year-long 11,000-mile journey biking the backroads of #America. Looking for some Americana on our 250th? Pls check out my story on Substack in the comments. Pls ck out the #adventure #Film #Photography #Travel

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

No problem with high petrol prices if you electrify mobility with clean energy. Be like #Norway #NoMoreWar #EndOil #CleanEnergy

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy #scape Day from the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, #Arizona Beautiful #photography here and great recreation. #EastCoastKin

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And fired the entire National Science Board of the United States of America over the weekend. #WarOnScience

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Is this for real? If we can electrify large equipment like this in China, it is game over for #fossilfuels

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bravo USA. 🇺🇸 Keep moving clean energy forward. Make the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

With #Arctic sea ice tracking at record lows going into the summer melt season it’s a good reminder, I witnessed and documented the first great sea ice loss and tipping point 19 yrs ago #sailing the #NorthwestPassage #ProtectTheArctic #Photography #ClimateChangeIsReal

August 2007, Beaufort Sea. sv Cloud Nine. 1st Americans

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It’s times like these I’d rather be #sailing. Someplace cold and exciting. Anyone else?

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

From paddling Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters to disrupting the migratory patterns of 200,000 Porcupine Caribou in our Arctic Refuge, it’s wilderness protection, public lands and recreation vs Big Oil and extraction. Pick a side. The battle is on. #ProtectPublicLands and #Wilderness #Arctic

Please read my in depth story on Substack where I go into further depth on the threats to our public lands and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge including a side trip on a documentary photo mission into the ancient Gwich'in village of Old Crow Yukon. https://thoreson.substack.com/p/red-alert-your-public-lands-are-under

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Melissa has now gone through 2 rapid intensifications with winds at 185 mph (gusting 215+) n a low pressure reading of 992 mb, making this the 3rd strongest hurricane recorded in the Atlantic Ocean system. Storm surge 9-13 feet w heavy rain n high tide conditions. Worst case scenario for Jamaica.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Less #Seaice in the Arctic means more shipping in the Northern Sea Route, which Putin controls. Until the USA understands climate disruption, we are at a strategic disadvantage.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thx Zack. Multi-year thick sea ice is near extinction in the Arctic. Sea ice extent is like the skin of an onion, lots of thin first-year ice. The #NorthwestPassage was again open this season.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Been there. Seen it. Groundtruthed the science multiple times. We’re losing sea ice quickly in the North.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

16 years ago, I was the photographer and ice sailing expert on Ocean Watch sailing through the #NorthwestPassage from west to east. I shot this image near Bellot Strait as we were putting the passage behind us. Now a new One Ocean #sailing voyage is retracing our route to document enviro change.

Ocean Watch sails through the Northwest Passage in 2009 on a 28,000-mile circumnavigation of the Americas. Seattle to Seattle. Now a new circumnavigation is underway with the same captain Mark Schrader retracing our voyage and doing scientific research along the way.
https://oneislandoneocean.com/crew

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11/08/2025

What the Arctic Teaches Us About the Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Zachary Labe - chrisgloninger.substack.com/p/what-the-a... (many thanks for the awesome conversation and article @climatechris.bsky.social, @davidthoreson.bsky.social, and @channingdutton.bsky.social)

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What the Arctic Teaches Us About the Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Zachary Labe

From weather blogs to world-class graphics, a leading young climate scientist helps us visualize a planet in flux.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Come on Dems. You can fit stuff on a bumper sticker.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Hey BlueSky friends, sorry about my absence from the platform for a while. Long story, but I’m back. We are in some real trouble in regards to the #climatecrisis luckily my friends @climatechris.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social are all over it.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Trump and his science-denying thugs are wiping climate change data from the system. They are willing to burn 🔥 the USA and civilization to the ground. The #climatecrisis is real and life threatening. This shit is real folks and the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to have the data anymore.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hey BlueSky photographers, artists and outdoor recreational enthusiasts, our pubic lands and waters are under assault once again by the greedy bastards in the MAGA GOP. resist these efforts. Protect #publiclands #photography #adventure #nature #conservation open.substack.com/pub/thoreson...

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America’s Public Lands and Waters Threatened

Protection is the key to biodiversity, water quality and climate security.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Want know what adventure travel and the glamorous life of a professional sailor photographer really looks like? Pls check out my latest Substack column. Enjoy! #Photography #Sailing #Ocean #Adventure #Seascape substack.com/@davidthores...

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Surviving the Pacific: Heat, Humidity, and the Trials of Ocean Life

Swamp ass in the tropics and Murphy’s Law always rules the day.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Puamau Valley is one of the richest archaeological sites in French Polynesia with many mysterious Tiki stone statues on the island of Hiva Oa.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My latest on Substack. I just sailed 3000 miles across the Pacific #Ocean. Ever wonder about a #sailing plan? How our #climate system works? Trade wind sailing? Pls subscribe and remember I donate paid subscriptions to water quality efforts. Thank you. open.substack.com/pub/thoreson...

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Sailing Across an Ocean Wilderness

Part Four: Understanding our climate system will take you a long way.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I’m back from #sailing the Pacific. “Along with ocean currents circulating warm and cold water, this is our natural heating, and air conditioning system, which provides the stability for all life to exist on Planet Earth. Man-made #climatechange is disrupting these natural systems…” #Photography

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We sailed 2900 miles on Polar Sun and finally crossed the Evans made it into Hiva Oa in the French Marquesas Islands. Spectacular! #Travel #Sailing #Oceans #Adventure #Photography

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Sailing across the Pacific Ocean and had a very beautiful #Seascape last evening.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sailing through the doldrums near the equator. Lots of heat and rain. Slow progress. 190 nautical miles to our crossing. About 1000 miles to the Marquesas Islands. #Ocean #Sailing #Landscape #BlackandWhite

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We have a stowaway on Polar Sun now as we head to the Equator, a blue-footed booby! Been on board with us for 12 hours hanging out. #ocean #nature #Bird #photography #sailing

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We left Mexico from Barra de Navidad n headed west and slightly south, #sailing 3000 miles now across the Pacific Ocean on a 47' sailboat named Polar Sun. We went through the Northwest Passage and were the cover of Nat Geo in 2023. Awesome days on the #ocean. #Photography #Drone #landscape #explore

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day 🌎 everyone from the Pacific #Ocean. Celebrate the the magic to be found in nature. This lovely home planet is 70% water and it’s all threatened, our oceans and freshwater systems. Let’s all work hard in our own watersheds and support conservation and climate efforts as we can.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Last evening was special sailing in the Pacific #Ocean to the French Marquesas Islands. Wing and wing sail set for dead downwind in the NE Trade Winds. Both Big Dipper and Southern Cross in view last night. Magical. #Sailing #Photography #Nature #Seascape #Travel #Adventure

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Sailing and climate meet at the equator. As we sail across the Pacific in the NE trade winds it’s important to note these NE/SE trades force air into the convergence zone at the equator where it’s heated, lifted and redistributed back towards the poles. Our very own unique #climate system. #Nature

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We are now officially at sea! That’s the last land we’ll see for the next 3000 miles as we now sail from the western Mexico coast to the French Marquesas Islands. I’ll be posting along the way. Cheers mates!! #Sailing #Ocean #Photography

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sailing in the tropics and over the Equator on Ocean Watch on the Around the Americas expedition in 2009-10. 400 days at sea. Partnering with the Canadians on research and science. Oh for those old days. Ocean and sea educational program built with NSF. #Ocean #Science #Climate #Sailing #Nature

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Looking forward to sailing into the tropics again. The clouds and colors are magical. A little hot for me, but a last voyage on my bucket list- Sail across the Pacific to the French Marquesas Islands. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's Kontiki as a kid. Amazing. #Photography #Sailing #Ocean #Nature #Sea

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Tesla lost 10% of its value in one day.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hope you've enjoyed one of my many polar sailing stories. Shifting gears. I'm pretty fired up to get back to the tropics and sail over the Equator again to the French Marquesas Islands. 3000-mile crossing. Journey begins next week... #Sailing #Ocean #Equator #Travel #Tropics #Seascape

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Do you know that wind energy and water quality are related? Wind turbines produce over 50xs the energy per acre than growing corn for ethanol. The massive increase in corn production is polluting water in the Midwest and sending it downstream. My latest on Substack. substack.com/@davidthores...

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Our sail across the North Atlantic from Greenland to Ireland was fast as we followed in the tail of a hurricane. We settled in near Cork n our northern voyage had ended. I made 11 ocean voyages on Cloud Nine, this was the second. A new voyage begins across the South Pacific in two weeks. #Sailing

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Our sailing trip to Greenland and the #NorthwestPassage in 1994 was historic and enlightening. Our time in all the small villages was profoundly meaningful and the seascape with all the icebergs was a magical time. #GreenlandIsNotForSale #ProtectTheArctic #Explore #Photography #Seascape #Nature

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Just a reminder I’m telling a story of the “normal” Arctic sea ice I witnessed and documented on our 1994 #NorthwestPassage and the record loss of ice I’ve continued to document over 3 decades. #ClimateChangeIsReal #ProtectTheArctic #GreenlandIsNotForSale #Photography

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Reflecting on the 1994 #NorthwestPassage voyage. We were turned back, but witnessed the last normal period of sea ice in human history. Now lost 75% of our North Polar ice cap by volume due to #ClimateChange. Of our crew of six, three of my mates have now died, including Geoff Pope on his last ice.

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David Thoreson - The Accidental Explorer @davidthoreson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We prepared Cloud Nine for the North Atlantic crossing and let the storm pass. As we made our exit from East #Greenland we witnessed our last iceberg and knew that our sailing expedition to the north had ended, but new horizons awaited. #Sailing #Seascape #Scape #Travel #Photography #Explore #Ice

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/03/2025

So…lock them up?

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