Federal Weather Workers 'Shocked' and 'Irate' by NOAA Backing Trump, Union Head Says
Source: The Daily Beast
The head of the union that represents federal weather workers said Friday that his members are “shocked, stunned and irate” that the federal agency whose workers they represent put out a statement siding with President Trump in the increasingly bizarre dispute over whether Hurricane Dorian was on track to hit Alabama.
“Never ever before has their management thrown them under the bus like this,” said Dan Sobien, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, which represents 4,000 employees under the umbrella of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
“These are the people risking their lives flying into hurricanes and putting out forecasts that save lives. Never before has their management undercut their scientifically sound reasoning and forecasts,” Sobien told The Daily Beast.
Sobien’s reaction is the latest development in a storm-fueled sideshow that has consumed the president for much of the week and been dubbed “Sharpie-gate.”
It began Sunday, when President Trump tweeted out that Dorian was expected to hit Alabama—and the NWS’s Birmingham office posted a correction:“Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east,” the tweet said.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/noaa-left-federal-weather-workers-shocked-and-irate-by-backing-trump-union-head-says
The next swipe will be trump hacking NWS FY20 budget. Nothing should surprise or shock us anymore If it does, you have not been paying attention.
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... scientists, and denying their own agency’s data, really crosses a line. 
I’m shocked and irate myself.
Please make this STOP.
Locking kids in squalid cages didn't upset them. But messing with weather maps? That's going too far. 
the caged children are "other". Not "human". Brown people who have already been thoroughly dehumanized by the GOP.
u'pants! 
that “demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama.”
So what? They were right, and that's their job. But it is also NOAA's job to give the President and the public the most up-to-date and accurate information as quickly as possible.
President Twitter Tantrum wasn't wrong (OR lying) when he said Alabama COULD be hit, and NOAA was wrong or lying to tell him so. The problem is that Trump took NOAA's reversal as a deliberate personal insult that had "shown him up." So he retaliated while his fans cheered -- but not particularly well. He doesn't seem to have much experience in learning from his mistakes, but maybe that's because he's too rich and power to make them...
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