My latest with Wolfgang Knorr (climate scientist) & Sir Robert Watson (previous chair of IPCC & IPBES) published today by @theconversationuk.bsky.socialtheconversation.com/the-overshoo...

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C

The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it is increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.

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Read this, everyone.

I kept scrolling up to confirm the author descriptions because your clear and present anger is so unlike the usual hopium and Ballads of Utopia that it felt like reading a piece by #LetzteGeneration#JustStopOil. Thank you! Can I entice you to lobby for research in a new RCPcollapse or SSP0-2040?

Fantastic, clear explanations, great piece

Thanks @jamesgyke.bsky.social for this & (belatedly) for your seminal 2021 article challenging net zero. Your clear science-based critique helped inform the “Making Zero Count” power analysis of net zero pre COP-26. Tragically the movement largely caved but I think critics are gaining ground now.

Good article on toxic optimism of nations & corporates accepting/promoting (grossly inequitable)'net zero' (= 'climate neutrality') Paris overshoot "goals". BUT doesn't "Au revoir Paris" allow same bad actors (& sci) to ignore our ONLY globally agreed ºC & equity accountability thresholds?