How researchers ‘tried to not get any attention’
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.
