James Dyke
Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Columnist @theipaper | Book Fire Storm & Flood tinyurl.com/jamesgyke
- Does crashing past 1.5°C of warming mean the end of the world? If you mean the collapse of civilisation then no. But we are witnessing the end of the net zero world view. jamesdyke.substack.com/p/its-the-en...
- Reposted by James DykeWhy do global fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise? In simple aggregated terms: economic growth (orange) is too strong to be overcome by improvements in energy efficiency & structural change (green), & CO2 intensity of energy use (blue). robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...
- We have created weapons of biospheric destruction. Our food systems have exterminated species across the globe while fossil fuel combustion is driving the climate towards a much hotter & violent state. Industrialisation transformed humanity. The trade off is that we have become death.