Ex-Biden official scolds Trump on climate change after Texas floods

Monica Medina a former Biden State Department official scolded President Donald Trump on environment change in the aftermath of the devastating Texas floods First of all I just want to say how heartbreaking this is for any parent to imagine this kind of a horrible thing happening to their child And I hope that this will mean that the president will stop mocking state change as an existential threat Medina announced during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday Medina wife of Biden's former chief of staff Ron Klain served as the State Department's first Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Information Because for those hundred souls it was an existential threat and it is an existential threat for Americans all across the country It s touching everyone Medina continued TEXAS FLOODING KILLS MORE THAN AS SEARCH CONTINUES FOR DOZENS OF PEOPLE What I take away from this is that it was preventable There are things that we can do I know sometimes we feel powerless in the face of environment change but we know that weather is getting more and more extreme she revealed Medina reported that the particular part of Texas that was flooded was called flash flood alley We had the ability to make small changes to be able to prevent something like this Medina announced NOAA weather radio It s something that s available and you can buy it in stores and it will warn you in the middle of the night you don t have to have a siren system if you don t have one in place and it may take a while before Texas decides to put one in place NEW JERSEY COAST GUARD SWIMMER RESCUES NEARLY PEOPLE IN DEADLY TEXAS FLASH FLOODSPrior to her State Department job Medina was a Georgetown University professor and co-founder of Our Daily Planet an e-newsletter on conservation and the climate the Biden White House mentioned at the time Medina backed the Green New Deal in writing in a Huffington Post column The Green New Deal is a unifying political message that gets back to the basics of creating an financial market that works for all people and protects the planet as a outcome Medina declared weather services were stretched to the latest point during her appearance on Morning Joe CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURECLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPOver people including children and counselors at a girls' camp were killed in central Texas in flash flooding that began early on the morning of the Fourth of July