![]() NOAA's statement also directly refuted a tweet from the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service that had contradicted Mr. President Trump talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House on Wed., Sept. "From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama," a NOAA spokesman said in a statement Friday. On Friday, NOAA backed up the president's ongoing assertions that the state appeared initially to be in the path of the hurricane - contradicting the findings of the agency's own meteorologists. Trump held up a NOAA map that appeared to have been altered with a black pen to show a projection of the storm possibly striking Alabama. The letter was first reported by the Washington Post.Īt the White House last week, Mr. "I am pursuing the potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific Integrity," McLean wrote in the email, which was obtained by CBS News. ![]() Trump's claims was "political" and a "danger to public health and safety." Craig McLean, NOAA's acting chief scientist, wrote an email to colleagues that said the agency's statement Friday backing up Mr. The chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said he is looking into "potential violations" of scientific integrity in the way the agency responded to President Trump's claims that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama.
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