CBS News: No Staff Members Left In Science Division Of White House Office
In addition to this situation, the Science Advisory Board at EPA also has lost members and can barely function.
Update on July 2: See this article re push back from Administration. Still not clear to me if there are any staff scientists left.
Plus, the position of Science Advisor to the President is still vacant.!
Climate Change Could Threaten Up To 2 Billion Refugees By 2100. “It’s coming at us faster than we thought.”
“The rising sea, he surmised, is the one displacement force more powerful than greed.”
New article by Craig Fugate, former FEMA Administrator: The True Test of a Successful Crisis Response: Public Trust
New Orleans mayor: US climate change policy cannot wait for Trump. Mitch Landrieu says cities will lead as federal government is ‘paralysed’ NYC’s de Blasio backs push as Miami Beach shows anti-sea rise work
Thanks to Steve Armstrong, I have copies of two lengthy after-action reports on the wildfires and evacuation in Alberta Canada last year. Since they are 176 and 82 pages long, I will not mount them here. Anyone who wants the full reports should contact me and I will send them to you via email.
Half hour video on the role of states in disaster recovery: link is here. This video was released last year by the Coastal Resilience Center. Thanks to Alessandra Jerroleman for the link.
By the way, there is a facebook group called Disaster Recovery Community that may be of interest to readers of this blog.
More capable hurricane decision support platform helps emergency managers
Hurricane Matthew was one of the first operational uses of DHS’s S&T HURREVAC-eXtended (HV-X) platform. The HV-X platform integrates forecast and planning data to provide emergency managers decision support tools for use in advance of and during tropical weather. Development began in 2013 and since then, S&T identified the need for a comprehensive hurricane decision platform that encompassed all phases of planning and evacuations. Collaborating with FEMA, S&T worked to streamline the currently available HURREVAC storm tracking and decision platform. The result of this collaboration is HV-X.
Recovery Diva 