inews 11th April 2024 For more than 30 years governments have been wrestling with the climate problem. While we may or may not get the politicians we deserve, what seems abundantly clear is that no mainstream political party has demonstrated the sufficient gumption to keep humanity safe from dangerous climate …
The i paper 10th March 2024 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Today, we would need to add to this proverb: teach a man to farm fish and you feed billions. Fish …
James Dyke, University of Exeter and David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University It’s now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year ever recorded by humans, probably the warmest for at least 125,000 years. Multiple temperature records were smashed with global average temperatures for some periods well above 1.5°C. Antarctic …
On Thursday 9th November 2023, the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter hosted George Monbiot for a public seminar. Over the course of one and a half hours George and I discussed how much danger humanity currently faces, the role of young people and protest in producing sustainability …
Over the years I have been asked to write witness statements for the trial of climate change protestors. Here is a recent statement I drafted. If you have any recommendations for updates/changes/edits then please get in touch with me at helloATjamesgdyke.info. If you would like to use this statement (for …
Published 29th May 2023, i news. For many of us, doing the recycling is now a normal part of housekeeping. We separate out our paper, glass and tins before putting them in the green bin. Increasingly, plastics have the recycling logo on them. So we rinse them out and save …
By some estimates over 100,000 people amassed at central London over the past four days. Key locations in including the heart of the UK Government were the centres of mass die in, biodiversity parades, drumming, chanting, speeches and much more. This was the Big One, a four day action from …
Carbon removal is in the news again today. This story has been prompted by new research that suggests Direct Air Capture could be carried out using new chemistries that could results in a three-fold increase in efficiencies. There are quite a few “coulds” in that this is very early days …
Published in World Politics Review 24th January 2023 There is something very wrong with global food production. From farm to fork, the food system as it currently exists is the most environmentally destructive of all human activities. More than half of the Earth’s habitable land is used for agriculture, and …
Earlier this year I discussed net zero, 1.5, the Paris Agreement and much more with Tom Rivet-Carnac. This was captured in a recording that has now been made available as a podcast via Outrage & Optimism, a project created by Tom, Cristina Figueres, and Paul Dickinson. The discussion was part …
This week, the University of Exeter announced a new net zero collaboration with Shell. This five-year deal represents a significant amount of income to the University. This money will pay for research in the UK and Brazil that “is part of a wider Shell-led research programme focussed on carbon sequestration, …
Are we going to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C since pre-industrial times? Back in June I gave a talk at a TED event about carbon offsets and net zero in which I answered “no”. This week I was told that my talk at TED is being circulated …
A transcript of my talk along with slides is available here. Back in June I was invited to a two-day event at TED about carbon credits. Interesting I thought and then assumed I would not go. Because while I was sure it would be an excellent, I could imagine some …
I was very pleased (& surprised!) to hear that I along with my co-authors Dr Wolfgan Knorr and Sir Prof Bob Watson were awarded a 2022 Covering Climate journalism award for our 2021 article Climate scientists: the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap published by The Conversation in …
The Conversation article “Concept of net zero is a dangerous trap” authored by Wolgang Knorr, Bob Watson and myself has been nominated for the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award. A bit of a surprise as I did not know we were nominated. Winners decided in May apparently. In any event, …
David Schwartzman Professor Emeritus at Howard University, USA. He has done pioneering work on Earth system science and economics & policy as well as being involved in US and international politics. He visited the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter to give a seminar on degrowth and ecosocialism. …
“Mr Rose, a 52-year-old software engineer who calls himself the ‘Uncle On Hunger Strike’, hasn’t eaten since March 14th and has now lost two stone. He has been outside Parliament every day protesting for such a briefing, which has so far been refused three times by Mr Hands, who met Angus on …
I continue to work on net zero and associated climate science and policy issues. This still seems to be a controversial topic (as judged by the emails I receive). It’s not my intention to needlessly provoke, or to devalue the tremendous efforts that many people have and continue to make …
My book Fire, Storm, and Flood: the violence of climate change is published on 5th August. To mark the occassion I’m gave an online book talk in partnership with independent bookshop October Books. For those that missed it, a recording of the talk and the discussion afterward is available here: …
I’m very excited that the University of Exeter is able to offer two permanent lectureships to help teach our very successful MSc Global Sustainability Solutions (MSc GSS) programme. Physical Geography post details HERE. Human Geography post details HERE. In only its second year we are teaching 70 students, with applications …
