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Earl Blumenauer: GAO found that 11 out of 11 insurance companies that they surveyed already incorporate this into their risk models. FEMA…

On the recordSeptember 27, 2007
GAO found that 11 out of 11 insurance companies that they surveyed already incorporate this into their risk models. FEMA can do this using the private sector, and it can use government data that the Bush administration has been suppressing now in other areas, open it up, let these climate scientists that work in other parts of the government advise FEMA, or contract with the private sector. It's not hard to find the information.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing the integration of climate data into FEMA's risk models.

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