Govt Watchdog: Politics caused 'Sharpiegate' frantic rebuke

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High-ranking political pressure, “crazy middle of the night” texts, emails and calls triggered NOAA’s rebuke of its forecasters as Hurricane Dorian approached, undermining public trust in weather warnings, inspector general says.

that Alabama was among states that “will most likely be hit harder than anticipated.” Forecasters in Alabama said they didn’t know about the president’s tweet, which was based on outdated information, and that they were instead responding to calls from a worried public.

Four days after the tweets, then acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sent Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross an email after 9 p.m., saying “it appears as if the NWS intentionally contradicted the president. And we need to know why. He wants either a correction or an explanation or both.” The eventual unsigned statement from NOAA said: “The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”and had no major impact on Alabama, which is about 600 miles away.

 

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You can do the same thing with every politician. Remember You can keep your Doctor. And Pelosi saying we won't know that's in the Obama care bill until we pass it. If your being fair and honest.

The fact that NOAA and some IG is still upset about this is proof we have too many federal employees.

Remember when we only had to worry about the public trust in the weather?

gunderwood3 Looks like a GOP flaccidity map to me!

Ohhh... Another deep state agenda!

How many times can tRump prove he’s a moron? Evidently every damn day! It would have gone a long way with me if just once he’d say “I made a mistake “ or “I was wrong ”. Just once! It will never happen. He’s such a dick.

Who gives a 💩

FakeNews TrumpDerangementSyndrome

Even when it is possible for Trump to easily salvage a potential problem, his massive ego always forces him to double-down on his mistakes. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a harsh mistress.

He'll be coming out with a book next month. Get your money ready. lol

And anyone who thought that was a silly issue should look around for why undermining science from exec leadership matters

Rebuplicans must only hear news that they like and can agree with. They can't change the weather literally, but they can change what they want the weather to be and lie to us about it. Unbelievable how terrible these people are. We solve problems being honest.

Well, we knew that......

Sharpie circles and cardboard graphs is 2020...

LOOK TRUMP IS READING IN COLOURS/COLORS

It's unbelievable the hoops people are willing to jump through to protect Trump's fragile ego.

It's part of the pattern. Your Looney Tunes president must control all messaging whether it be the NOAA, courts, military, COVID team, Fox News, CNN, etc. Too bad he wasn't half as smart as his idol, Vladi Putin. Or maybe that's good or you'd have him for another 16 years.

That's unbiased news again from the AP. Shocking.

“The president is known for his use of Sharpies.”

2/14/20: 'CDC Contradicts Trump’s Prediction That Coronavirus Will ‘Miraculously’ Go Away by April' via thedailybeast.

That and weather forecasts even by the day are terrible. But, forecasting ClimateChange over decades, dead accurate.

when your in power you can bend any law or any thing .

People can't even trust the weather reports out of the Trump administration

... sad to see NOAA NWS reputation lost down the toilet , after all those yrs of service. worse still they may never recover

Trump the idiot.

But remember, we are all going to die from climate change in the next couple of years.

9/6/19: 'Three-day projections are more accurate, since they don’t look as far forward. As you can see, there was no projected overlap with Alabama three days out.'

Because he wants to control everything, even the weather. He’s a god in orange paint. 😡

“Agency officials downplayed and disputed the findings.” fakenews

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