Earl Blumenauer Quotes

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

No two floods are alike.

Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger zones such as extremely vulnerable coastal zones - from New Jersey to the Philippines. This enormously increases the economic and human costs of hurricanes, rising seas and changing weather patterns.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.