http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/23/1372733/-FEMA-to-governors-If-you-want-funding-act-on-climate-change-now?detail=email
FEMA isn't putting up with flat earth, climate change denying politicians for much longer:
Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change.
This may put several Republican governors who maintain that the Earth isn't warming due to human activities, or prefer to take no action, in a political bind. Their position may block their states' access to hundreds of millions of dollars in FEMA funds. In the last five years, the agency has awarded an average $1 billion a year in grants to states and territories for taking steps to mitigate the effects of disasters.
Are you listening, Florida Governor Rick Scott? Because Florida truly needs to take the threat of climate change seriously:
The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years.
And yet, Governor Rick Scott has his head buried in that Miami Beach sand:
DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) officials have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports, according to former DEP employees, consultants, volunteers and records obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
Republican governors in non-coastal states also need to get the message:
"This could potentially become a major conflict for several Republican governors," said Barry Rabe, an expert on the politics of climate change at the University of Michigan. "We aren't just talking about coastal states."
Climate change affects droughts, rainfall, and tornado activity. Fracking is being linked to more earthquakes, he said. "This could affect state leaders across the country.
To be clear, this will not affect emergency federal aid, only disaster-preparedness funding. But, no surprise that this still amounts to billions, primarily in Republican governed states:
Republican-led regions constitute eight of the top 10 recipients of this category of FEMA money between 2010 and 2014. Louisiana was No. 1, having received almost $1.1 billion from FEMA for hazard mitigation. New Jersey was third with nearly $379 million, and Texas fourth with almost $343 million.
i love it i kept saying we needed to take a page or two from their playbook hold hostage what they really need until not that we get what we want but what is right for a future existence of the planet and us. party of stupidest still hasn't learned they did the same denial of ObamaCares and ended up with their most recent leader of the 2016 pack saying he and his wife were going to get it after his last words about it were the same "repeal every letter of it" och that's gonna leave a scar.
now they can comply with the knowledge 90% of scientist dropped on us or they can govern over a burned out hole where their state used to be. how exactly do the populations of those involved states feel about their up for grabs future do they support the party line stupisdity or their families and friends???
