By Evan Comen, Climate Crisis 247
In the leadup to the 2024 election, several extreme weather events of historic proportion have positioned climate at the center of the presidential race. Brutal summer heat domes led to spikes in heat-related deaths throughout the country, while Hurricanes Helene and Milton caused hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in property loss throughout the Southeast in the fall. The successive crises and the slow recovery efforts that followed highlighted the need to bolster federal weather forecasting and disaster response agencies like NOAA, FEMA, and the National Flood Insurance Program.
