Fighting for our data | Data Scientist @ Harvard School of Public Health | Aspen Institute Fellow | Climate, Public Health, and Environmental Impact of AI and Data Centers
Another critical tool taken down by the Trump administration but preserved for the American people: FEMA’s Future Risk Index. This tool shows how much climate change will cost American communities (actual dollar figures!)—no wonder the administration felt threatened by it. Click a county to see its risk rating and projected losses under different emissions scenarios. This tools shows us the near-term economic stakes of climate change and why emissions matter. Huge kudos to Jeremy Herzog and Rajan Desai at Fulton Ring for rebuilding it! https://lnkd.in/dJ3zHnt7 #climate #risk #data #fema #insurance
Thanks for the shout out! Happy to help keep these tools alive
I’m not here to judge the FEMA. I just want to say when you find something wrong, you need to make it be heard and make sure actions are taken. You don’t just put it in the database or on a presentation. Someone needs to follow up. The auditors of the City of LA issued a audit report in 2022, it warned the city of LA to take action to protect residents and their properties. It stated that FEMA reported LA the most at risk, while average cities ranked at 11, LA was at 100. Guess what? LA didn't do anything over years. We've seen what happened in LA this winter. Someone should read the data, then be accountable to take actions to address the risked. That’s what we do in the risk management.
Florida must certainly be more red than that. I’m guessing lack of reporting?
This is truly unfortunate. Removing the words 'climate change' is one thing (as it doesn't actually change the science), but actually removing products and services that help our communities AVOID risk (through critical thinking and planning) really doesn't make sense. This effectively places more Americans at risk and will have significant negative economic impacts.
This new map from rebuild by design community shows this impact and the disaster declarations per capita numbers. This active map has climate disaster declarations by congressional district over the last decade +. It's really powerful statistics everyone should have in their back pocket. This site retains much of the FEMA information separately outside of the administration. https://rebuildbydesign.org/atlas-of-accountability/
No expected annual loss in Florida even in coastal communities? I thought a significant portion of that state would be swallowed by the Gulf of MEXICO?
Imagine if there was legal liability for subjecting communities to an undue amount of harm.
Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. It was defined as a pollutant when the EPA changed the definition back around 2008. The biggest risk is urban sprawl. We've paved over hundreds of thousands of acres over the past 50+ years and grown into fire, flood, and hurricane prone areas. Passing these disasters off as "due to climate" change is a lie. Our office is located about 20 miles south of where the glacier ended during the last ice age. Similarly, about 100 miles to the south, there is fossil evidence of a much warmer and tropical period where sea levels reached southern IL. All the renewable energy in the world isnt going to stop the climate from repeating these patterns in the future. I would be highly suspicious of the underlying risk modeling used to generate this map just as I am with climate modeling in general.
Asst. Professor at University of Maine.
3dJonathan Gilmour, with the pending 65% EPA cuts, do you see that data at risk too? Should we be going to data.gov and downloading en masse?