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But administration officials have defended their decision to shrink the bureau to a fraction of its size, arguing that the agency had engaged in the “weaponization” of consumer protection to the detriment of industry.

Another factor: Only a tiny fraction of active-duty military members or their spouses are enrolled in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP—roughly 1%, according to federal estimates and surveys.

It notes that every fraction of a degree of warming means more losses for people and ecosystems, higher costs to adapt, and more reliance on uncertain techniques to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Until, for a fraction of a second, they did exist—inside an exploding atomic bomb.

She noted that "rapid change has already been detected across Antarctica's ice, oceans and ecosystems, and this is set to worsen with every fraction of a degree of global warming."