Claim: When the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action approached the Federal Government in April they were drawing on decades of data showing that fire conditions are getting worse.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Bush's administration presided over the largest tax cuts since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and his homeland security reforms proved to be the most significant expansion of the federal government since the Great Society.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On January 30, 2015, days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a post-Sandy report examining flood risks for 31,200 miles (50,210 km) of the North Atlantic coast, President Obama issued an executive order directing federal agencies, state and local governments drawing federal funds to adopt stricter building and siting standards to reflect scientific projections that future flooding will be more frequent and intense due to climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The administration rolled back regulations requiring the federal government to account for climate change and sea-level rise when building infrastructure.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The administration released the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) in November 2018, a long-awaited study conducted by numerous federal agencies that found "the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country, and that climate-related threats to Americans' physical, social, and economic well-being are rising."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: In October 2017, the administration declared a 90-day public health emergency over the opioid epidemic and pledged to urgently mobilize the federal government in response to the crisis.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Climate change increases wildfire potential and activity.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: White House explains the link between Climate Change and Wild Fires.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Scientific experts and land management agencies agree that severely below average fuel moisture attributed to record-breaking temperatures and drought, accompanied by severe fire weather, are the primary causes of the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season, and that these are likely to have been exacerbated by long-term trends of warmer and dryer weather observed over the Australian land mass.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Research shows that rising heat due to climate change has caused an increase in fires around the United States.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Episode 2, "End of the Woods" (April 20, 2014): Schwarzenegger accompanies the "hot shots", elite firefighters in Western US forests, as they risk their lives fighting the fire season made longer and more destructive by global warming, as fire regions expand from the southwest US further north into Canada.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Over time, drought and wildfires have become more frequent challenges.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Some large wildfires in the United States have been blamed on years of fire suppression and the continuing expansion of people into fire-adapted ecosystems, but climate change is more likely responsible.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Episode 4 (13), "Fueling the Fire" (November 16, 2016): Arnold Schwarzenegger explores how the military is adapting to climate change and limiting national security risk by increasing energy efficiency and using renewables, but needs to increase the pace of this adaptation.