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Uncle Joe

(62,379 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:41 AM Jul 11

Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking "Disaster Response Chain" as Climate Crisis Escalates



Rescue teams in central Texas are still searching for about 160 people who went missing in the catastrophic flash floods on July 4. The official death toll has climbed to at least 121 victims. State policymakers are now in the spotlight, as questions swirl around Texas's lack of emergency precautions and the climate denialism of Republican political leaders. "Many of those lost lives could have been saved if links in our disaster response chain hadn't been broken," says Monica Medina, a former official at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal administration that, among other tasks, monitors extreme weather. NOAA has been hit by major cuts to funding and staffing under Trump, despite the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters from climate change. Medina is among many climate and policy experts sounding the alarm on the defunding of NOAA and other meteorological and disaster preparedness services. "We are firing the people. We're stopping taking in the data. We're ending the research. We're turning off the satellites. We're doing everything we possibly can to put our heads in the sand in the midst of what is increasingly dangerous weather."

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Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking "Disaster Response Chain" as Climate Crisis Escalates (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jul 11 OP
Please, let's just call it what it is. SalamanderSleeps Jul 11 #1
Good segment Wild blueberry Jul 11 #2

SalamanderSleeps

(913 posts)
1. Please, let's just call it what it is.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jul 11

Scientist's called it global warming

Frank Luntz created the term "Climate Change."

Today, I think we should just understand a new term " Global Ruining."

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