Former top NOAA officials say the agency risks its credibility and maybe lives by supporting Trump's claim about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama.
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.
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