Michael Harper
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Michael Harper
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@dpcarrington.bsky.social I think the framing of this headline is woefully poor. It is not the case that the risk of AMOC collapse is worse than thought. Rather, as the article states, the more ‘pessimistic’ scenarios are more realistic. Essentially, we chose to believe the optimistic ones… again.
April 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Why do journalists and some scientists insist on always saying things like « several Earth system components may be closer to destabilising than once believed »? Is it some sort of « nobody told me » exculpatory argument? It is bogus - we were all warned. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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🇱🇧 Israeli aircraft sprayed chemical substances over areas along the Blue Line across southern Lebanon on Feb. 1, which Lebanon’s Ministries of Ag. & Environ. confirmed included the herbicide glyphosate at concentrations 20 to 30 times higher than normal levels.

The ministries said the spraying...
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Without making any comment on the merits or otherwise of doing this, exactly the same arguments for designation applied to IDF (“long-overdue political signal that massive violence and transnational repression will no longer go unanswered”): www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
EU formally designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation
‘Any organisation that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,’ says Kaja Kallas
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The UK as weak link again: “Britain’s two leading opposition parties are vying for Trumpian favour and much of its oligarch-owned right-wing press is increasingly MAGA-aligned”. open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
New World Order
Thoughts on Europe's looming Chamberlain moment, Carney in China, when good news is bad news, and how Maria Corina Machado got the last laugh
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Incomplete redress for abuses over 20 years ago. Slavish complicity with US international crimes is not a great policy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UK ‘pays substantial sum’ to tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee
Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah accused British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogators
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Bet the Norwegian Nobel Committee is regretting its choice. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Nobel Institute rejects María Corina Machado’s offer to share peace prize with Trump
Organisers clarify award ‘cannot be revoked, shared or transferred’ after Venezuelan opposition leader’s comments
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals. Quite the most ridiculous decade of tax negotiations ever conducted. The OECD secretary general, Mathias Cormann, an absolute poodle. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The deft hand of Yvette Cooper still screwing UK’s peaceful protests. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Grassroots group’s bank account frozen due to ‘Palestine Action investigation’
Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine, which has no affiliation to direct action group, informed by deputy mayor
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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As the fossil fuel industry derails efforts to ramp down, the tech bro propaganda campaign to normalize solar geoengineering is ramping up.😱

50+ African nations are calling for a NON-USE agreement before it's too late. The Guardian is joining them. So should the rest of us. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Dutch foreign minister resigns over government's failure to sanction Israel
<article data-history-node-id="427562" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dutch-foreign-minister-resigns-over-governments-failure-sanction-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dutch-foreign-minister-resigns-over-governments-failure-sanction-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Dutch foreign minister resigns over government's failure to sanction Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp on Friday resigned after his government failed to agree on sanctions against Israel.</p> <p>“I see that I am insufficiently able to take meaningful additional measures to increase pressure on Israel,” Veldkamp told Dutch news agency ANP.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Dutch government did not agree on sanctions during a cabinet meeting on Friday.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
August 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Michael Harper
As they call the Israeli Ambassador in for a word on her country carving up the West Bank.

Money talks more honestly.
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This seems noteworthy: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'Jews, rebel!': Ex-Knesset speaker calls on world Jews to take Israel to ICJ over Gaza
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www.haaretz.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Repeat reminder that UAE backs and supports RSF. David Lammy’s failure to act explained: “Thirty-seven days after Zamzam fell, the UK declared its desire for a trade deal with the Emirates.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A new poll carried out by the Israel Democracy Institute showed that a vast majority of Israeli Jews – 79 percent – say they are "not so troubled" or "not troubled at all" by the reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Large majority of Israeli Jews untroubled by reports of famine in Gaza, poll finds
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www.haaretz.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Clive Stafford Smith: In support of Palestine Action’s right to protest | Good Law Project.

goodlawproject.org/clive-staffo...
Clive Stafford Smith: In support of Palestine Action’s right to protest | Good Law Project
Supporting Palestine Action’s right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action. It’s time for Keir Starmer to remember why human rights exist, says Clive Stafford Smith.
goodlawproject.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Daily reminder of utter failure of Yvette Cooper to understand genocide or terrorism. Her actions make no-one safer and debase genuine concerns about threats to UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally
Exclusive: Video shows veteran campaigner being dragged and handcuffed and she says bail conditions effectively confine her to her house
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM