FEMA Head Links Warming To More Intense Hurricanes, Can't Say Why FEMA Doesn't Even List Warming

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Gaynor's comment Friday about climate was notable because it differed from his response to Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) at a Senate hearing in November when Carper asked Gaynor several times what was causing storms to become more intense and more frequent. "What do you think is going on?" Carper asked. "I don't know, sir," Gaynor replied. "That's not a very good answer," Carper said.

At the House hearing Friday, Gaynor's answer acknowledging the role of climate pleased Speier, who replied, "Precisely, precisely," when Gaynor finished. But Speier then asked Gaynor why FEMA's latest National Preparedness Report says nothing about climate change. The 2019 report is the eighth annual summary of U.S. vulnerability to threats such as disasters and terrorism but the first to say nothing about climate change (Climatewire, Jan. 7).

"It would make sense, would it not, to have climate change as something that you would include in your strategic planning, possibly to improve your ability to assist when these calamities occur?" Speier said.

Gaynor said the report doesn't mention any specific hazards and is "more of a thought piece about what was important to the nation."

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