Every state has a plan for what to do in the event of disaster, specifically, a “State Hazard Mitigation Plan,” but there’s no requirement that these plans take global warming into consideration. As a result, individual states vary wildly from one another in their levels of preparation for storms, flooding, heatwaves and other climate disasters. This map, from Matthew Babcock at Columbia University’s Center for Climate Change Law shows each state’s level of preparation for global warming-related hazards, and, in short, it’s bad news for Delaware, better news for California.
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