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 Trumps 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 NOAAs 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 agencys 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. NOAAs scientific integrity policy prohibits political interference with the conduct and communication of the agencys scientific findings.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/15/noaa-investigation-sharpiegate/
Full headline: NOAA leaders violated agencys scientific integrity policy, Hurricane Dorian Sharpiegate investigation finds
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stillcool
(32,626 posts)bikeboy
(124 posts)They leave a permanent mark no?!
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)trump is an idiot
paleotn
(17,781 posts)Don't answer that.
niyad
(112,440 posts)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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(56,905 posts)By Olivia Paschal September 9, 2019
June 15, 2020