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"When Donald Trump won November’s election, a small team working on a key new
US government tool charting impacts of the climate crisis scrambled into
action. They hastily renamed the resource to remove the word “climate” and
quietly released it without fanfare in December, before Trump’s return to the
White House.
However, the unusual precautions taken by staff at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (Fema) weren’t enough to save the tool, which they had
rebadged as the
Future Risk Index.
The new Trump administration, which has eliminated mentions of the climate
crisis and its consequences across multiple government websites, deleted the
index last month, dashing several years of work and with it hopes it would help
cities, states and businesses across the US prepare for worsening storms,
wildfires and floods.
“We changed the name of it, removed mentions of emissions scenarios, tried to
not get it any attention,” said a source familiar with the Fema project, who
asked not to be named. “But it was taken down because there is now a fear of
anything climate-related. There is such a culture of fear and uncertainty in
Fema, people are worried about getting fired or defunded.”"
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
