Earl Blumenauer: “What we're saying now is that we are in a world that everybody else acknowledges is rapidly changing. It looks like…”

“What we're saying now is that we are in a world that everybody else acknowledges is rapidly changing. It looks like climate change, global warming is a reality, and just using straight-line extrapolation for FEMA to determine 100-year flood plains or 500-year floodplains doesn't work because it is changing much more rapidly than past patterns would expect. So we ought to use the best available science here and around the world to look at what's likely to happen in the future. FEMA doesn't currently do that. They look at flat-line projections of past activity, not looking at using the best available science for what's going to happen in the future.”