
Pete Deneen
Pete Deneen is an Ojai-based writer, educator, and former US Coast Guard lieutenant who serves as executive director of Keep the Sespe Wild and co-founded the Sisar Canyon Run Club.
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Oct 16, 2026
El Niño, Lake Powell, and the Future of the West with Pete Deneen
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Pete DeneenGUEST
I, I will say like La Niña in 2023, where we had a fifth wettest winter of all time here at my location, you can chalk that up to like the fact that like, yes, the Eastern Pacific was cool, but ocean basins-- like oceans, the ocean has uptaken most of the heat from humans' activities, right, over the past 100 f- all of our industrial activities since 1895.

Pete DeneenGUEST
The ocean has uptaken like 90% of that output of carbon dioxide, and so it, it's, the ocean's accumulating all this heat, and the ocean's overturning cycles are over many years, sometimes over decades, and so heat gets released in these cycles.

Pete DeneenGUEST
[clears throat] And ocean basins throughout the world are just like blinking red.

Pete DeneenGUEST
They are overheating, so many of them, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean to the North Pacific.
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