The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted 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. Continue reading...
The Trump administration deleted FEMA's Future Risk Index, a tool charting the localized impacts and costs of climate change on US communities. The Guardian has recreated the tool, which provides county-by-county data on projected annual losses from extreme weather events worsened by global heating. FEMA also removed other climate-related information from its website. The original index was initially restored by Fulton Ring, a software and data company. The sidelining of climate concerns within Fema comes as the agency is increasingly strained by a growing number of catastrophes that are being fueled by rising global temperatures.
