Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is expected to implore his colleagues this evening — for the 300th time — “to wake up” and start addressing climate change.The Rhode Island Democrat in April 2012 began one of the longest-running regular speaking spots in the legislature’s history.

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.

In the five months since Trump chose Neil Jacobs as NOAA administrator, hundreds of NOAA scientists and meteorologists have left the agency through a combination of firings, buyouts and retirements.