{"id":25946,"date":"2019-09-10T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:49:46","slug":"please-leave-by-the-clearly-marked-exit-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/10\/please-leave-by-the-clearly-marked-exit-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Leave By The Clearly Marked Exit, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears the scientific segment of NOAA<\/strong><\/em> is firing back against the leadership for its being a lapdog<\/a> of President Trump:<\/p>\n

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s acting chief scientist said in an email to colleagues Sunday that he is investigating whether the agency\u2019s response to President Trump\u2019s Hurricane Dorian tweets constituted a violation of NOAA policies and ethics. Also on Monday, the director of the National Weather Service broke with NOAA leadership over its handling of Trump\u2019s Dorian tweets and statements.<\/p>\n

In an email to NOAA staff that was obtained by The Washington Post, NOAA\u2019s Craig McLean, called the agency\u2019s response \u201cpolitical\u201d and a \u201cdanger to public health and safety.\u201d …<\/p>\n

In his email to employees Sunday, McLean criticized his agency\u2019s public statement, saying it prioritized politics over NOAA\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NWS Forecaster(s) corrected any public misunderstanding in an expert and timely way, as they should,\u201d McLean wrote. \u201cThere followed, last Friday, an unsigned news release from ‘NOAA\u2019 that inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the NWS forecaster. My understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A statement greatly congruent with my own view, and kudos to McLean for pursuing the matter. For Jacobs, Roberts, and those who conspired with them to pervert the mission of the NWS<\/strong><\/em> and NOAA<\/strong><\/em>, this may be the first tone on the gong which will herald their exit in disgrace.<\/p>\n

As I explained before, this was not some political incident which, while offending the political class, was essentially harmless. No, the NWS<\/strong><\/em>‘s services are far too valuable in safeguarding the food supply and, in extreme weather situations, lives directly. By perverting them, the citizens for which President Trump bears a responsibility are put collectively at risk. This is not a trivial change in risk – people taken by surprise by a hurricane tend to die, even in modern houses, because the resources to rescue and rebuild aren’t ready.<\/p>\n

If Trump was an adult, he’d admit the error, apologize, and fire Jacobs, et al. But he won’t, because he’s a narcissist.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Jacobs did this in response to an order from Secretary Wilbur Ross. Nonetheless, I still believe Jacobs should resign for malpractice as a leader.<\/p>\n

[Reposted after accidentally making it a tab<\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears the scientific segment of NOAA is firing back against the leadership for its being a lapdog of President Trump: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s acting chief scientist said in an email to colleagues Sunday that he is investigating whether the agency\u2019s response to President Trump\u2019s Hurricane Dorian \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25949,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions\/25949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}