NOAA Chief Scientist Says Move To Contradict Agency And Back Trump Was 'Political'
It "was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political," the agency's acting chief scientist wrote.
NOAA's top scientist said Monday that he's investigating why the agency's leadership endorsed President Trump's false tweet that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, after Birmingham-based meteorologists from the National Weather Service publicly pushed back on it.
In an email, Craig McLean, acting chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inappropriate, suggesting it was politically motivated.
