James Dyke
@jamesgdyke.info
Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
Excellent to see this article from @exeter.ac.uk Environmental Intelligence PhD student Jonathan Growcott. Lion roars are not only unique, but can give us important insights into the life of individuals and prides.
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Lions have two types of roar – new research
Using AI to distinguish between full-throated and intermediary roars could have benefits for lions’ conservation.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Excellent to see this article from @exeter.ac.uk Environmental Intelligence PhD student Jonathan Growcott. Lion roars are not only unique, but can give us important insights into the life of individuals and prides.
theconversation.com/lions-have-t...
theconversation.com/lions-have-t...
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Prof of Medicine @hughmontgomery.bsky.social says climate is biggest risk to health.
“I am scared” he says.
Web of impacts of climate lead to wars and societal collapse.
Plant-based diets and cuts to new oil and gas are among the tools Gov needs to promote.
“I am scared” he says.
Web of impacts of climate lead to wars and societal collapse.
Plant-based diets and cuts to new oil and gas are among the tools Gov needs to promote.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Prof of Medicine @hughmontgomery.bsky.social says climate is biggest risk to health.
“I am scared” he says.
Web of impacts of climate lead to wars and societal collapse.
Plant-based diets and cuts to new oil and gas are among the tools Gov needs to promote.
“I am scared” he says.
Web of impacts of climate lead to wars and societal collapse.
Plant-based diets and cuts to new oil and gas are among the tools Gov needs to promote.
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Food security scientist @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social says farmers don’t know how to get through the next floods and droughts.
Gov needs to support plan-rich diets to support farmers and health and reduce food waste for cleaner air & water for healthy people, soils, nature, and climate.
Gov needs to support plan-rich diets to support farmers and health and reduce food waste for cleaner air & water for healthy people, soils, nature, and climate.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Food security scientist @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social says farmers don’t know how to get through the next floods and droughts.
Gov needs to support plan-rich diets to support farmers and health and reduce food waste for cleaner air & water for healthy people, soils, nature, and climate.
Gov needs to support plan-rich diets to support farmers and health and reduce food waste for cleaner air & water for healthy people, soils, nature, and climate.
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Professor of Climate Change Tim Lenton @exeter.ac.uk describes tipping points cascades.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Professor of Climate Change Tim Lenton @exeter.ac.uk describes tipping points cascades.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
Coral reefs appear to be doomed.
AMOC collapse will both freeze and superheat UK, and halve wheat and maize globally.
Positive tipping points, eg death of oil & gas from policy are essential for survival.
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Environmental lawyer @tessakhan.bsky.social says only 7% of our forests are healthy, and depleted marshes and soils put over 5 million homes at risk of flooding.
@wwf.org.uk showed over half of voters think the gov is not doing enough to protect nature.
@wwf.org.uk showed over half of voters think the gov is not doing enough to protect nature.
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Environmental lawyer @tessakhan.bsky.social says only 7% of our forests are healthy, and depleted marshes and soils put over 5 million homes at risk of flooding.
@wwf.org.uk showed over half of voters think the gov is not doing enough to protect nature.
@wwf.org.uk showed over half of voters think the gov is not doing enough to protect nature.
Good luck to everyone presenting and attending today. We need this!
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Good luck to everyone presenting and attending today. We need this!
UK's climate & energy approach risks scraping the bottom of the barrel with attempts to pump more oil & gas from North Sea. But real risk is policy of ’tiebacks’ that allows further extraction from old fields paves the way for the development of huge Rosebank oilfield.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
North Sea Future Plan for fair, managed and prosperous transition
Government sets out plan to manage existing North Sea oil and gas fields, protect jobs and grow clean energy industries.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
UK's climate & energy approach risks scraping the bottom of the barrel with attempts to pump more oil & gas from North Sea. But real risk is policy of ’tiebacks’ that allows further extraction from old fields paves the way for the development of huge Rosebank oilfield.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Very fortunate to be hearing from @exeter.ac.uk academics reporting back from latest climate negotiations in Brazil COP30, event hosted by @gsiexeter.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Very fortunate to be hearing from @exeter.ac.uk academics reporting back from latest climate negotiations in Brazil COP30, event hosted by @gsiexeter.bsky.social.
Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers bringing chaos to roads in & around the capital today with protests against tax changes. I strongly support their right to protest. Worth pointing out that none of them face arrest & prosecution for these actions.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers' go-slow tractor demo from Ipswich to Felixstowe on A14
A tractor convoy takes to the road in a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Farmers bringing chaos to roads in & around the capital today with protests against tax changes. I strongly support their right to protest. Worth pointing out that none of them face arrest & prosecution for these actions.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just posting an author share link after popular demand: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6Dd9C~Iu...
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just posting an author share link after popular demand: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6Dd9C~Iu...
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems
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the entire thing is mind boggling but how does one draw points and lines with such precision and consistency, exactly where they need them and do it so fast? i can't even sign my name the same way twice. we're not the same.
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A bunch of reactionary centrist pundits have decided that climate change isn't that big of a deal anymore. These climate scientists strongly disagree.
Hmmm ... how to adjudicate? 🤷
Hmmm ... how to adjudicate? 🤷
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A bunch of reactionary centrist pundits have decided that climate change isn't that big of a deal anymore. These climate scientists strongly disagree.
Hmmm ... how to adjudicate? 🤷
Hmmm ... how to adjudicate? 🤷
Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet produces.
Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey in Three Charts: sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...
Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
sentientmedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet produces.
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It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position
A lil thread 🧵
A lil thread 🧵
a man is talking about being entirely successful .
Alt: a robot is is talking about not being entirely successful .
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November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position
A lil thread 🧵
A lil thread 🧵
Another climate conferernce ends, another missed opportunity to avert disaster. We've failed to limit warming to 1.5°C. The worlds is going to become more dangerous. This means climate policy must reflect this new reality. 1/6
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
Living beyond limits
Decades of climate policy failure means we must find ways to live in a more dangerous world
www.technosphere.earth
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Another climate conferernce ends, another missed opportunity to avert disaster. We've failed to limit warming to 1.5°C. The worlds is going to become more dangerous. This means climate policy must reflect this new reality. 1/6
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
James Dyke, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, said: “Despite the host’s best efforts, Cop30 will not even be able to get nations to agree to fossil fuel phase-out. This shameful outcome is the result of narrow self-interest and cynical politicking.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
James Dyke, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, said: “Despite the host’s best efforts, Cop30 will not even be able to get nations to agree to fossil fuel phase-out. This shameful outcome is the result of narrow self-interest and cynical politicking.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A comprehensive rundown of the #COP30 shenanigans from @roycerk2.bsky.social. From what I saw, the Colombians were the only ones whose negotiators and civil society groups were on the same page, and they carried the whole world on their shoulders.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A comprehensive rundown of the #COP30 shenanigans from @roycerk2.bsky.social. From what I saw, the Colombians were the only ones whose negotiators and civil society groups were on the same page, and they carried the whole world on their shoulders.
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"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
1/4
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
1/4
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
A man is detained by US Border officials in a construction site of a fast food restaurant, Charlotte, North Carolina". as part of "Operation Charlotte’s Web". www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A man is detained by US Border officials in a construction site of a fast food restaurant, Charlotte, North Carolina". as part of "Operation Charlotte’s Web". www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"
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“We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth.” ⬇️
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
“We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth.” ⬇️
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...