FEMA Chief: ‘Climate Change’ to Blame for Deadly Tornado Outbreak

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has claimed that “climate change” is to blame for the outbreak of deadly tornados over the weekend.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell claims that such disasters will be the “new normal” from now on.

“This is going to be our new normal,” Criswell told CNN during an appearance on the network’s “Sunday” show.

“The effects we are seeing of climate change are the crisis of our generation,” Criswell said.

“We’re taking a lot of efforts at FEMA to work with communities to help reduce the impacts that we’re seeing from these severe weather events and help to develop system-wide projects that can help protect communities.”

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Criswell’s comments come after a tornado outbreak terrorized parts of the Midwest on Friday and Saturday, with more than 100 people feared dead and leaving thousands without power throughout much of Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas.

“This is Kentucky’s most devastating tornado event in our history,” Kentucky Gov. Andrew Beshear said at an event Sunday.

“Nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing.”

The nation’s top emergency management official said such a severe and sustained outbreak of deadly storms this late in the year is “unprecedented,” but she noted that FEMA is doing everything it can to help people impacted by the storms.

“I think there is still hope, right?” she said.

“We sent one of our federal urban search and rescue teams down to Kentucky.

“They arrived yesterday.

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“They’ll be able to assist the localities with their ongoing rescue efforts.

“I think there is still hope, and we should continue to try to find as many people as we can.”

Criswell’s comments come after Democrat President Joe Biden said it was too early to tell whether climate change could have played a role in the outbreak, saying he would have the Environmental Protection Agency assess the possibility.

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By Frank Bergman

Frank Bergman is a political/economic journalist living on the east coast. Aside from news reporting, Bergman also conducts interviews with researchers and material experts and investigates influential individuals and organizations in the sociopolitical world.

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