Fema started deleting “climate change”

The term “climate change” began to fade from the Federal Emergency Management Agency website (FEMA). Its previous website “Climate Flexibility” has been renamed under the title “Future Conditions”. There are still hidden references to climate change there, but they whisper more than an urgent warning as before.

The web page, which was titled “Climate Flexibility”, previously He used to say At the top:

“Climate change is the distinctive crisis of our time. From severe heat, dehydration and forest fires to the most severe coastal storms, sea level rise and internal floods, the consequences of climate change exist around us.”

reading The current web page In comparison, it is like playing one of these games as you have to guess what changed in the picture. (Tip: There is a typo in dual space where the phrase “climate change” was.) The paragraph now says:

“Disaster accidents rise due to increased human weakness, exposure and climate change. From severe heat, dehydration and forest fires to more intense coastal storms, sea level rise and internal floods, the consequences are around us.”

There are many climate signals removed from the page, according to the analysis by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI). The group of researchers met after Trump’s first election in 2016 Documenting what may happen for general environmental data. Group Find Almost 40 percent decreased in the use of the term “climate change” via web sites for federal environmental agencies during the first Trump administration.

Since the agency that coordinates federal responses to all types of disasters from hurricanes to forest fires, Fema risks the development of a large blind group in its work if it ignores the effects of climate change. Make climate change fatal Los Angeles fires probably In January, in just one terrifying case.

Fema faces more existential threats, of course, under the Trump administration. Signed Executive order On January 24, it was established to assess whether the agency could “address disaster in a neutral and fair manner,” claiming “serious fears of political bias in FEMA”.

Fema did not immediately respond to a request for comment from freedom. The changes were made on January 21, a day after Trump’s inauguration. “We do not know the intention of the team that renamed this site,” Edge wrote in A. Blog post today. The flying may have been under the radar of the new administration; Perhaps compatibility with the priorities of the new management. “

Other web pages for Fema and other government agencies are a mixed bag when it comes to mentioning climate change. The Ministry of Transport has reduced a web page for “Climate and Sustainability” from itPriority“A website. But other long climate web resources are still connected to the Internet.

Edgi and other groups were scrambling to archive federal web pages and data groups. But there are still greater questions about what is happening if these agencies stop attention to climate change completely. As the proverb goes, you cannot manage what you do not measure.