"The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted"
"When Donald Trump won November’s election, a small team working on a key new US government tool charting impacts of the climate crisis scrambled into action. They hastily renamed the resource to remove the word “climate” and quietly released it without fanfare in December, before Trump’s return to the White House.
However, the unusual precautions taken by staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) weren’t enough to save the tool, which they had rebadged as the Future Risk Index.
The new Trump administration, which has eliminated mentions of the climate crisis and its consequences across multiple government websites, deleted the index last month, dashing several years of work and with it hopes it would help cities, states and businesses across the US prepare for worsening storms, wildfires and floods.
“We changed the name of it, removed mentions of emissions scenarios, tried to not get it any attention,” said a source familiar with the Fema project, who asked not to be named. “But it was taken down because there is now a fear of anything climate-related. There is such a culture of fear and uncertainty in Fema, people are worried about getting fired or defunded.”"
Oliver Milman and Andrew Witherspoon report for the Guardian March 26, 2025.
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Restored climate risk index (Fulton Ring/Guardian)
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