James Dyke
@jamesgdyke.info
Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
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An article on solar geoengineering should have mentioned the risk of 'termination shock'. It quotes @jamesgdyke.info, who has explained this well - see www.technosphere.earth/climate-tipp....
See also for instance bsky.app/profile/anni...
See also for instance bsky.app/profile/anni...
Private investing in stratospheric aerosol injection
It involves the injection of highly reflective particles into stratosphere — the atmospheric layer between 4 to 30 miles above Earth's surface — to reflect a small amount of sunlight back into space
www.dw.com/en/why-priva...
It involves the injection of highly reflective particles into stratosphere — the atmospheric layer between 4 to 30 miles above Earth's surface — to reflect a small amount of sunlight back into space
www.dw.com/en/why-priva...
Why scientists warn of privately funded geoengineering
As the climate crisis intensifies, interest in solar engineering is increasing, including among private companies and investors. But the technique is controversial and lacks regulation.
www.dw.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
An article on solar geoengineering should have mentioned the risk of 'termination shock'. It quotes @jamesgdyke.info, who has explained this well - see www.technosphere.earth/climate-tipp....
See also for instance bsky.app/profile/anni...
See also for instance bsky.app/profile/anni...
Before Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and the other movies that made Jason Statham an action movie star, he appeared as a dancer in The Shamen's 1992 video for Comin' on Strong. Yes, that's him in the leopard print pants.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3...
The Shamen - Comin' On HD
YouTube video by themosttogain
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Before Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and the other movies that made Jason Statham an action movie star, he appeared as a dancer in The Shamen's 1992 video for Comin' on Strong. Yes, that's him in the leopard print pants.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3...
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
Who's this in the classic "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1st ever video on MTV)? Hans Zimmer. Yes the 2 X Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer who composed music for Lion King, Dune, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar etc.. 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Who's this in the classic "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1st ever video on MTV)? Hans Zimmer. Yes the 2 X Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer who composed music for Lion King, Dune, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar etc.. 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
Not all heroes wear capes.
Earth League Assemble! www.jamesgdyke.info/earth-league...
Earth League Assemble! www.jamesgdyke.info/earth-league...
Earth League Assemble! - James Dyke
I'm very pleased to say that I have started a fellowship with the Earth League, an international organisation that "provides scientific insights on change and transformation within the Earth system an...
www.jamesgdyke.info
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Not all heroes wear capes.
Earth League Assemble! www.jamesgdyke.info/earth-league...
Earth League Assemble! www.jamesgdyke.info/earth-league...
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Pretty good summary of the forces arrayed against the CO2 endangerment finding. I think they are counting their chickens prematurely.
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Pretty good summary of the forces arrayed against the CO2 endangerment finding. I think they are counting their chickens prematurely.
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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Devastating floods have hit Portugal, Spain & Morocco in the past days, causing loss of life & billions of Euros in damages.
How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas?
Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...
How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas?
Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...
Flooded Futures: Understanding the Rising Threats and How We Prepare | Stefan Rahmstorf
YouTube video by Holcim Foundation
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Devastating floods have hit Portugal, Spain & Morocco in the past days, causing loss of life & billions of Euros in damages.
How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas?
Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...
How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas?
Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
🧵
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
🧵
So he's going to actually turn up at Parliament and his own constituency now? leftfootforward.org/2025/07/from...
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
So he's going to actually turn up at Parliament and his own constituency now? leftfootforward.org/2025/07/from...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
One week left to apply for the CCNow Academy!
12 sessions. 40 journalists from around the world. Science, solutions, justice, disinformation, health, migration and more. Join a global community of peers.
Free. Interactive. Live. NOT a webinar series!
Apply here by February 16:
12 sessions. 40 journalists from around the world. Science, solutions, justice, disinformation, health, migration and more. Join a global community of peers.
Free. Interactive. Live. NOT a webinar series!
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Hosting nazis was one of the reasons I ended up moving my newsletter from Substack to Ghost. Also, IMHO Substack doesn't allow you to have complete control of your own publication.
www.technosphere.earth/new-name-new...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Hosting nazis was one of the reasons I ended up moving my newsletter from Substack to Ghost. Also, IMHO Substack doesn't allow you to have complete control of your own publication.
www.technosphere.earth/new-name-new...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
www.technosphere.earth/new-name-new...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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We're in a new climate reality - but how can we best operate in it?
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 AM
We're in a new climate reality - but how can we best operate in it?
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
Join me and a stellar panel - including @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social - for this @businessgreen.bsky.social webinar to explore how best to map climate risk and build resilience
📅 Tomorrow (Tuesday 10th Feb)
⏰ 1200-1300 GMT
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"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
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🔴NEW: I worked w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Charlie Young on this investigation mapping Palantir's public sector contracts, including previously unreported spend with the Nuclear Propulsion Integrated Project Team (NP-IPT) and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies:
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...
www.thenerve.news
February 5, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just unfathomable. News report about her case here: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Just unfathomable. News report about her case here: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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New post out:
"The most dangerous man in America"
Understanding "Trump's Prime Minister" Stephen Miller - the nexus of all the streams of right-wing thought and behaviour that embody the current regime.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The most dangerous man in America"
Understanding "Trump's Prime Minister" Stephen Miller - the nexus of all the streams of right-wing thought and behaviour that embody the current regime.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The most dangerous man in America
Understanding Stephen Miller: “Trump’s Prime Minister”
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
New post out:
"The most dangerous man in America"
Understanding "Trump's Prime Minister" Stephen Miller - the nexus of all the streams of right-wing thought and behaviour that embody the current regime.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The most dangerous man in America"
Understanding "Trump's Prime Minister" Stephen Miller - the nexus of all the streams of right-wing thought and behaviour that embody the current regime.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Why does he? Beyond attempting to grab headlines, boost share price and grift, has anyone suggested combining space-based compute with Solar Radiation Management? Because the cooling fins/radiators needed will be huge. So you may as well block out the sun too 🤷 1/2
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Why does Elon Musk want to put AI data centers in space?
If space-based AI computing is the future, SpaceX is the most ideally placed to operate AI-ready satellite clusters.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Why does he? Beyond attempting to grab headlines, boost share price and grift, has anyone suggested combining space-based compute with Solar Radiation Management? Because the cooling fins/radiators needed will be huge. So you may as well block out the sun too 🤷 1/2
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
tcnv.link
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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A great short talk by Earth Systems prof @jamesgdyke.info here (I haven't yet listened to the others) - 10:40 to 15:20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCl...
Collapse in the 21st Century and Apocalyptic Optimism
YouTube video by Rev21 – Revolution in the 21st Century
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
A great short talk by Earth Systems prof @jamesgdyke.info here (I haven't yet listened to the others) - 10:40 to 15:20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCl...
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Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.
From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Successive storms have submerged farms across the UK. This is going to increase so we must adapt. But adaptation without phase out of fossil fuels risks being pointless.
www.jamesgdyke.info/bbc-radio-4-...
www.jamesgdyke.info/bbc-radio-4-...
BBC Radio 4 discussion on UK farming resilience - James Dyke
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 i...
www.jamesgdyke.info
January 30, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Successive storms have submerged farms across the UK. This is going to increase so we must adapt. But adaptation without phase out of fossil fuels risks being pointless.
www.jamesgdyke.info/bbc-radio-4-...
www.jamesgdyke.info/bbc-radio-4-...