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BumRushDaShow

(151,180 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 05:36 AM 4 hrs ago

Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks

Source: Politico

Thu, April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT


The State Department is eliminating the Office of Global Change, which oversees international climate change negotiations for the United States.

Staff were told about the move verbally Thursday afternoon, according to three people who were granted anonymity to speak about the decision to avoid reprisal. The news thrust the office into chaos and raised questions among staff about when the office would be permanently shuttered.

“This will hamstring international climate cooperation at the worst possible time,” said one official, referring to the upcoming global climate talks called COP30. It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.

A State Department spokesperson confirmed that the office is being eliminated to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives to cease participation in international agreements. “Consequently, this office — which supported the efforts of previous Administrations to hobble the United States through participation in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and other agreements purporting to limit [or] prevent climate change, is unnecessary,” the spokesperson said in an email.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/rubio-eliminates-climate-office-00308505

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Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago OP
Little Marco gets smaller all the time. Climate change is real. Botany 2 hrs ago #1
He has become a pod person BumRushDaShow 2 hrs ago #2
I don't call him robot rubio for nothing. Javaman 1 hr ago #3
Yup. BumRushDaShow 1 hr ago #4
Not one group on Earth think Climate Change is a hoax. JohnnyRingo 6 min ago #5

BumRushDaShow

(151,180 posts)
2. He has become a pod person
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 07:27 AM
2 hrs ago

You can tell he is uncomfortable with everything he has been tasked to do and he is being "forced to" do it not only as "punishment", but to show how spineless, desperate, power hungry, and craven he is when given the chance to finally be "in charge" of something.

Javaman

(63,662 posts)
3. I don't call him robot rubio for nothing.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 07:45 AM
1 hr ago

he's the easiest programmable sycaphant they have. that's why they picked him for SOS.

BumRushDaShow

(151,180 posts)
4. Yup.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 07:54 AM
1 hr ago

He's more than willing to compromise his soul for what he thinks is "power". But he's obviously not good at it because it is obvious he is not getting any joy from it like the loons he works with.

JohnnyRingo

(19,853 posts)
5. Not one group on Earth think Climate Change is a hoax.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 09:31 AM
6 min ago

..except for the United States republican party.

Yet they look around and see no reason to understand what the rest of the world so plainly sees.
Sadly, the driving reason for their manufactured ignorance is because democrats want to slow it.

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