(AP) -- Working until dawn, negotiators on Friday concluded a policy guide for governments on global warming that declares climate change is here and is getting worse, one of its authors said.
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we should start terraforming Mars right now because we need to spread like locusts throughout the cosmos.
If we limit the number of us here...
... focus on a minimalistic total environmental impact
The headline says it all.
The government representatives have AGREED what propaganda to put to the peasants.
It doesn't matter that even the IPCC's own data tells otherwise.How can you have global warming if the temperature is not rising?
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