Large swathes of UK farmland is underwater – again. Rural flooding is increasing as a result of more periods of intense rainfall. In this section I explained how warming leads to more climate change impacts which we need to adapt to. But there are hard and soft limits to such …
Last month I was asked to contribute to Carnegie’s ‘Taking the pulse’ series. The question was Has Europe Given Up its Leadership on Climate Change? December 12, 2025 will mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement adopted at COP21. Rather than celebrating the birth of this landmark climate treaty, …
“System change not climate change” is something you often hear shouted at a climate protest. This week we release a documentary that tries to unpack this. This is the second film I’ve produced with Global Documentary. The first, The Race is On: Secrets and Solutions of Climate, was released in …
A hotter more dangerous world demands new thinking about the climate crisis Recently I’ve been DJing at events and playing R.E.M.’s It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). Most people in the crowd have either never heard it before, or think of it as …
People’s inability to see past net zero shows it is no longer fit for purpose “Be flexible, find common ground, come forward with solutions and achieve consensus and never lose sight of our north star of 1.5°C, that’s what I’m going to stay laser-focused on.”President of COP28, Dr. Sultan Ahmed …
On the 11th March I gave a talk to a group of students from across the University of Exeter as part of a careers in sustainability & environment week. In many ways, this was a long time coming. I’ve been giving public lectures, seminars, talks about climate change for over …
I’ve started a Substack for a number of reasons, one of them being a place to publish articles that for one reason or another never seem to quite fit anywhere else. Yes I could put them up as posts here, but having a Substack just for articles means that, perhaps, …
In 2021, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr and I wrote the article “Concept of net zero is a dangerous trap“. Three years later we concluded that the jaws of this trap are starting to close with climate policy increasingly being framed in terms of what we call “The overshoot myth“. In …
I had the good fortune to work with audio producer Jo Barrett on a podcast about climate change. The commission was for a British Academy funded project that provides online climate and sustainability education to people working in creative industries. My brief was to talk about climate change, tipping points, …
You could say it’s 2016 again. But this time it’s worse. It’s worse because back then we could only really guess what a Trump presidency would do. Now we know. And beyond the presidency, the Republican Party now controls the Senate, Congress and has a conservative majority in the Supreme …
James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University Record breaking fossil fuel production, all time high greenhouse gas emissions and extreme temperatures. Like the proverbial frog in the heating pan of water, we refuse to respond to the climate and ecological crisis …
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 …
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 …
