6 Sept: NPR: NOAA Contradicts Weather Service, Backs Trump On Hurricane Threat In Alabama
by Richard Gonzales
The surprise statement on Friday has left meteorologists around the country baffled and upset...
“Some administrator, or someone at the top of NOAA, threw the National Weather Service under the bus,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, told NPR...
“I am very disappointed to see this statement come out from NOAA,” Oklahoma University meteorology professor Jason Furtado told The Associated Press. He said the controversy over the president’s tweets and the NOAA statement undermines public confidence in meteorologists...
Underlining the reaction by meteorologists to the escalating debate over the president’s claims is the fear that weather forecasting itself is becoming politicized...
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758532041/noaa-contradicts-weather-service-backs-trump-on-hurricane-threat-in-alabama
bury the FakeNewsMSM.
WaPo’s “climate” gatekeepers’ headline “for accurately contradicting him”??
6 Sept: WaPo: Capital Weather Gang: NOAA backs Trump on Alabama hurricane forecast, rebukes Weather Service for accurately contradicting him
by Jason Samenow, Andrew Freedman & Matthew Cappucci
By releasing the statement admonishing the agency for an accurate forecast, NOAA may be seen as putting politics before facts. This could undermine forecasters ability to carry out their mission to the point where people may come to see its weather forecasts as political and untrustworthy...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/06/noaa-backs-president-trump-alabama-hurricane-forecast-rebukes-weather-service-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/
what a disgrace.
... Underlining the reaction by meteorologists to the escalating debate over the presidents claims is the fear that weather forecasting itself is becoming politicized...
Nonsense. Someone at the Birmingham NWS Office was corrected. Not the Entire NWS.
The fact that they're 80% wrong has nothing to do with lack of confidence and mistrust? Of course not!