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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.


7 posted on 09/06/2019 10:30:46 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

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.


8 posted on 09/06/2019 10:35:24 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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... Underlining the reaction by meteorologists to the escalating debate over the president’s claims is the fear that weather forecasting itself is becoming politicized...


Umm, the only people politicizing the forecasts were left-wing Trump haters falsely attacking his correct warning about Dorian’s possible impact...


10 posted on 09/06/2019 10:42:00 PM PDT by Synthesist
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To: MAGAthon
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...

Nonsense. Someone at the Birmingham NWS Office was corrected. Not the Entire NWS.

14 posted on 09/06/2019 11:08:09 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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He said the controversy over the president’s tweets and the NOAA statement undermines public confidence in meteorologists...

The fact that they're 80% wrong has nothing to do with lack of confidence and mistrust? Of course not!

36 posted on 09/07/2019 3:49:54 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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