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BumRushDaShow

(127,327 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:00 PM Jun 2020

NOAA leaders violated agency's scientific integrity policy

Source: Washington Post

In a long-awaited report, an investigation conducted on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that agency leadership violated its scientific integrity policy through actions that led to the release of a statement that backed President Trump’s false statement about the path of Hurricane Dorian.

The NOAA statement, issued Sept. 6, 2019, contradicted its own meteorologists at a weather forecast office in Birmingham, Ala. The scandal over the forecast for Hurricane Dorian has come to be known as “Sharpiegate,” after President Trump modified a NOAA forecast map shown in an Oval Office briefing to depict the storm threatening Alabama.

The report, whose findings were accepted by NOAA’s leadership and released Monday, found Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator, and former NOAA deputy chief of staff and communications director Julie Kay Roberts guilty of twice violating codes of the agency’s scientific integrity policy. “It will be clear to anyone reviewing the accounts captured in this highly credible, independent Scientific Integrity report that the political leaders who interfered in our emergency response system need to publicly apologize or resign,” said Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.).

Tonko had made an integrity complaint, and is the sponsor of a bill that would make such violations more accountable across federal science agencies. NOAA’s scientific integrity policy prohibits political interference with the conduct and communication of the agency’s scientific findings.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/15/noaa-investigation-sharpiegate/



Full headline: NOAA leaders violated agency’s scientific integrity policy, Hurricane Dorian ‘Sharpiegate’ investigation finds

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NOAA leaders violated agency's scientific integrity policy (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2020 OP
memories...will they ever go away? stillcool Jun 2020 #1
Sharpies bikeboy Jun 2020 #2
Adding to a may with a sharpie does not change forecast Gothmog Jun 2020 #3
Is there any integrity policy this crowd won't run roughshod over? paleotn Jun 2020 #4
Let me understand something. It took NINE months for this investigation of a single incident?? niyad Jun 2020 #5
+1 Nevilledog Jun 2020 #6
The NOAA officials defending Trump's bogus Hurricane Dorian Alabama claim mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 #7

niyad

(112,440 posts)
5. Let me understand something. It took NINE months for this investigation of a single incident??
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:55 PM
Jun 2020

NINE months?? And assholes were complaining that the Mueller investigation, which covered months of activities by many people, was taking too long??

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