Intergalactic Special Agent Brasshinge Gombodlin was proud.

‘Extraction has commenced from Venus and Mars. And I bring good news from Earth’, he announced, ‘Our warship didn’t need to fire a shot.’

‘Why?’ enquired the Phanonchaíocht.

‘We deployed code into Earthling communication networks, causing them to doubt climate change. Even if they detect our theft of their CO2, many won’t believe it. Fools. Their atmosphere will regress to pre-industrial status and they won’t know how.’