See the details of the initiative and the plan for implementation, from this posting at the HSDL:
Climate Data Initiative: Delivering on Climate Action Plan Commitments

Some details:

The Obama administration plans to release vast quantities of federal data to help communities prepare for mounting risks from global warming.

The newly launched Climate Data Initiative will include a clearinghouse website with data from NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey and Defense Department, among other agencies.

According to this White House fact sheet, the site aims to make “federal data about our climate more open, accessible, and useful to citizens, researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators.”

The early focus will be on coastal flooding and sea-level rise. For example, the data sets released Wednesday include mapping information about hundreds of thousands of roads, bridges, tunnels and canals. Later data will take aim at cutting risks human health, energy infrastructure and the food supply.

The short answer: Do not buy expensive ads that promote yourself and your political objectives.

See this article from the New Republic: The Chris Christie Story Just Got Worse.  An excerpt:

As you may recall, Christie came under criticism during his reelection campaign last summer for having inserted himself and his family into the rousing “Stronger than the Storm” ads encouraging tourists to come back to the Jersey Shore. The ads had been funded by federal Sandy recovery aid, and it seemed eyebrow-raising, at the least, for them to feature beaming pictures of a governor in the middle of a reelection campaign, rather than just your average smiling New Jerseyans. The eyebrows shot up quite a bit further when it emerged that the firm that had gotten the job after proposing to feature Christie in its ads, public relations giant MWW, had bid at a much higher price—$4.7 million versus $2.5 million—than a well-regarded New Jersey ad firm that had proposed ads that did not feature the governor. Making matters even more interesting was that the award had been made by a selection committee led by Christie’s very close longtime aide, Michele Brown, whom Christie appointed to run the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, a $225,000 post.

I recommend you check out this posting by Eric Holdeman who blogs at Disaster-Zone.com See this piece on the various local EM assessment tools available.

This posting is a bit off topic, but every once in a while it is nice to get some positive news about the world.  The discussion of threats, risks, and disasters gets depressing sometimes. Below is part of a review on a new report from the Homeland Security Digital Library. See: The Human Security Project Report, titled “2013 Human Security Report -The Decline in Global Violence: Evidence, Explanation and Contestation,” which analyses Pinker’s data and also independently reviews data on recent global and regional violence. [Pinker’s book is titled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.]

Overall, it finds that “Better Angels” has sound research and a firm case in its claim that humanity is less violent now than it has been in recent eras. The Report hopes to aid in the debate with more recent information and research independent of Pinker’s own. It includes an extensive library of charts and graphs analyzing global and regional violence, and finds that since 1989, not only has violence dropped, but that “there has been an upsurge in international efforts to ensure a more secure world.”

If you have not read Pinker’s book, I recommend it.

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