The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren’t keeping up 🇺🇸 The Trump Administration’s mass layoffs and planned cuts to agencies that study climate and help warn of and deal with disasters could further worsen the situation in the future, these cuts were made partly so that the Trump Administration could afford to give billionaires massive tax cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill. As the weather has grown more extreme, our ability to prepare for and react to it hasn’t kept pace, the scientists said. “Infrastructure is aging in our country and is more vulnerable given the fact that there are just simply, as a matter of fact, more people living in harm’s way,” Peek said. “As our population has continued to rise, it’s not only that we have more people in the country, it’s also that we have more people living in particularly hazardous areas like our coastal areas.” 🇺🇸

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The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up

Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up.