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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it | The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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. The Guardian is now helping resurrect and display the short-lived tool, which was keenly awaited within Fema as the first free, localized resource showing how much climate change impacts will cost American communities. The president, however, has continued to call the climate crisis “a giant hoax” and has even threatened to dismantle Fema and hand over its functions to the states, which experts say could not foot the ballooning costs of disaster response and recovery.
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