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US State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You know, something occurred to me.

Maybe they're trying to turn the world into a desert to get the planet to produce Melange instead of oil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're nutty, but not quite that nutty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

They're actually even nuttier, just a different kind.