Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: How To Build Resilience To Catastrophic Events With Alice Hill

Assessing the Climate-Change Climate.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsMarch 20, 2018
Area 45: How To Build Resilience To Catastrophic Events With Alice Hill

The latest FEMA “strategic plan” mentions “risking natural hazard risk” but not a peep about global warming, rising sea levels or devastating weather. Alice Hill, a Hoover Institution research fellow focusing on building resilience to catastrophic events, discusses the Trump Administration’s reluctance to utter the phrase “climate change” and where scientific debate stands in 2018.

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