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James Dyke

Associate Professor in Earth System Science and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, specializing in climate overshoot, tipping points, and net zero policy.

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PODCASTS

Aug 7, 2026

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Overshoot Live: What’s the climate strategy above 1.5°C?

Aug 7 · 42m

Rory LeybourneHOST

5:55

James, as an earth system scientist, someone who studies how all of that balances out, do you think we need to expand our toolkit? And what could

James DykeGUEST

6:03

that look like? We need to expand our toolkit.

James DykeGUEST

6:06

And it depends entirely on those kind of feedbacks that Barney was just talking about.

James DykeGUEST

6:10

If we're unlucky, the doubling of the rate of warming is not just the result of our reduction of sulfate pollutants.

James DykeGUEST

6:18

That means the climate sensitivity might be an awful lot larger than we think.

James DykeGUEST

6:22

And if that's the case, then we're toast, right? I mean, we're looking for an extremely grim future.

James DykeGUEST

6:28

We could be looking at four degrees Celsius within maybe even this century.

9 MINS LATER

Rory LeybourneHOST

15:54

James.