NOAA assailed for defending Trump's Hurricane Dorian claim

President Trump again defended his much-mocked claims that Hurricane Dorian had threatened Alabama, focusing on the issue for the fifth straight day even as the storm moved up the East Coast.Former officials saw a political hand at work. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday as to whether it had communicated with NOAA before the agency released its statement Friday. NOAA officials also didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Fugate said the contradictory statements damage the National Weather Service and could not predict how much it might hurt hurricane preparedness and response. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator during the Obama administration, said: “It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, lifesaving work of NOAA’s talented and dedicated career servants. Scientific integrity at a science agency matters.”

Retired Adm. David Titley, former NOAA operations chief and a former meteorology professor at Penn State University, said that NOAA’s leadership is showing “moral cowardice” and that officials should have resigned instead of issuing the statement chastising the Birmingham office. Friday said he would have quit had he been in the same situation.

news flash: NASA has announced the earth is flat....

The President broke the law ! Why can't anyone understand that. Anyone can arrest him the employees of NWS & NOAA should do that. And the spineless politicians should back you up.

What would you do if your job and agency existence were threatened? Kiss Trumpnugget ass, document everything for congress later and try to still do some good with whatever credibility you have left. Easy.

DT at church today... Right?🐣

How could NOAA’s leadership throw its integrity, its reputation on the debris pile of Dorian? .. or is it on the refuse pile of the Trump Administration?

'Political' science nothing new for Trump and his GOP collaborators. This bulls**t release on Hurricane Dorian pales in comparison to their suppression of studies on climate change.

Well, let’s find out who signed it. If it was Wilbur Ross, that would explain a lot.

The Amazing Shrinking Trump

How pathetic is the liberal media when they make a continuing hit-piece/story out of whether or not a storm was gonna hit Alabama. tds

TDS

Once Trump gets through destructing our Government; how will Citizens and allies ever trust it again?

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