James Dyke

The students have won in Serbia, turfing out 12 years of right wing authoritarianism. Lula has just produced an extraordinary victory in Brazil. Trump's numbers are underwater. And they are pedestrianising Oxford street!

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Lead in the petrol, lead in paint, asbestos in ceilings, single pane windows, no roof or wall insulation, no central heating, no recycling, litter everywhere, no car seat belts, smoking everywhere, physically beaten children, blatant sexism & racism.

Big cars kill.

Reactions like this are fascinating & very appreciated. Because the idea that we will see a reduction in warming anytime soon is so outside of my expectations because there's very little evidence it will happen. It's wishful thinking. The default assumption should be warming is essentially forever.

Overshoot into dangerous climate change will not just produce damage, but accumulating damage. That has profound consequences for how we assess climate risk & tipping points. "The overshoot integral can inform climate science and policy beyond 1.5°C of warming" www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-in...

"what was being missed [in discussions about climatic overshoot] was the assessment of accumulating damage, not to mention the fact that we already have produced irreversible change — we are never going to get back to pre-industrial Earth system states."

This is super helpful, from @jamesgdyke.info On the **overshoot integral** ∫ > Likely *persistent high temperatures* > *Accumulating* & cascading climate impacts, harms > Severity of impacts a function of 🔥 heat x time ⏳ Climate policy "derailment risk" v salient today in UK #Jackdaw

OMG! Can't wait! 👻 www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

An excellent article from @jamesgdyke.info introducing a new way of looking at climate overshoot and flagging two new and important new papers Please share www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-in...

Overshoot into dangerous climate change will not just produce damage, but accumulating damage. That has profound consequences for how we assess climate risk & tipping points. "The overshoot integral can inform climate science and policy beyond 1.5°C of warming" www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-in...

Best one I've seen yet.

Well this looks very interesting (if I say so myself). Stay tuned for final version. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Here's 3 surprising new preprints on the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC. 🌊 The first by Winkelbauer et al. analyses 17 different ocean reanalysis products and finds the AMOC has weakened about 15% over the last 3 decades. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Selamat Pagi everyone!

Saudi Arabia is about to execute a young man for the crime of... attending funerals & demonstrations calling for religious freedom when he was 15-17years old. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Do not eat farmed fish. That's a very good rule of thumb. And you should avoid most caught fish because of by-catch and other unsustainable practices. Generally try & eat less fish, meat & diary.

Prepping slides for a lecture about causes of mass extinction events of past 500million years. "We are the asteroid" is sometimes said with respect to the impacts we are having on the biosphere. I think industrialised civilisation being equivalent to a super volcano may prove to be more apt.

Reminds me of the time a customer phoned to say their server was down & we told them it was gone. They asked when it will be back up, we said well that depends on when the police will find the van that their server got loaded into 2am earlier that day after a hole was blown into the data centre.

Nice article about Black Mountains College, a glimmer of hope. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Absolutely beautifully put. 👇

Dale Vince is once again lying about heat pumps. He’s lying on threads and he’s probably lying on Twitter, soon he’ll be lying on here. I get a LOT of milage from this explainer because he does this every couple months. philsturgeon.com/why-is-dale-...

Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Thirty-five years after the first warning, we now declare a planetary emergency. If you are a scientist, please read, sign, and share and go to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🇰🇬 Scientists hope sunken Silk Road city can reveal Central Asia's lost history In the middle of Kyrgyzstan's largest lake, a team of scientists and divers have uncovered the remains of a submerged city that was flooded an estimated 800 years ago.

This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

Derailment Risk: diverting funding away from emissions reductions to weapons. The worse the climate crisis becomes, the more that political instability flashes over to kinetic conflict, the more this will happen and we will move even deeper in danger.

This newsletter for @drilledmedia.bsky.social by @amywestervelt.bsky.social is a must read for anyone interested in climate activism. My personal take is that the movement is in abeyance for all these reasons and more--(stay tuned for that article soon 🤞): drilled.media/newsletter/t...

Octopuses sense light with their whole body & taste the world as they touch it. Yet there are few laws to protect them from factory farms. We’re racing to stop this cruel, unsustainable industry in its tracks. ️✍️ Help protect octopuses from farms: https://bit.ly/4hsdaE1

US continues its descent into barbarism. No idea what sort of legal challenges await to try to stop this. Perhaps that's the objective, froth up the outrage and attempt to own the libs.

Progress.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Once again, Kevin squarely hits the nail on the head.

What a day! Our clients Wendy and Tony have just won the first ever climate case to be heard by Australia’s highest court! Such a privilege to have been able to represent them in this landmark case, which will reverberate around the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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OAE isn’t as simple as “add alkalinity, remove CO2” This perspective argues for a more nuanced, site-specific view: local carbonate chemistry, sediments, ecological effects and governance all shape outcomes. Promising? Maybe. Simple or settled? Definitely not. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"a new mental climate". "a culture of resentment". Interesting and thought-provoking beyond France, what is belonging and society in today's extensively inter-connected world, and do politicians have answers - not obviously.

NEW RESEARCH: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the world's most impressive renewable deployment stories. It is also a story about a broken grid, high electricity prices and inequality. This is the first peer-reviewed paper to take a deep dive into it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/p...

I compulsively photograph power infrastructure. Marcus Merritt takes grid appreciation to the next level.

Join us for a city/regional screening of the People's Emergency Broadcast followed by an audience discussion facilitated by Exeter Community Assembly: 6:30pm-8:30pm University of Exeter Alumni Forum. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-em...

Another take is that the UK used the prodigious oil & gas reserves in the North Sea to fund large tax cuts & stimulate financial trading & services in London & South East England. Once that was spaffed away the neoliberal response was austerity. Compare that approach with Norway's.

Join us for a city/regional screening of the People's Emergency Broadcast followed by an audience discussion facilitated by Exeter Community Assembly: 6:30pm-8:30pm University of Exeter Alumni Forum. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-em...

One reason for such incompetence is that competent medics must abide by the Hippocratic Oath and so cannot intentionally kill people.

Preparing to give a lecture about planetary boundaries. I say politicians here, but corporate sustainability, media and much of society have very little interest in the other planetary boundaries (noting that their interest in climate often does not translate into actual action).

Brilliant! Every student should be trained to help create a climate-ready community/nation/world. Doing so by rolling up their sleeves and getting involved is a great way to build their sense of agency and promote their mental wellbeing. @climatepsychiatry.bsky.social @brittwray.bsky.social

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I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...