The
Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors
to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will
approve disaster preparedness funds only for states whose governors
approve hazard mitigation plans that address climate change. This may
put several Republican governors who maintain the earth isn't warming
due to human activities, or prefer to do nothing about it, into a
political bind. Their position may block their states' access to
hundreds of millions of dollars in FEMA funds. Over the past five years,
the agency has awarded an average $1 billion a year in grants to states
and territories for taking steps to mitigate the effects of disasters.