Craig McLean, acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is investigating whether a statement put out by his agency backing up President Donald Trump’s deluded claims about Alabama potentially being impacted by Hurricane Dorian was an ethical breach.
The investigation will conclude that there’s nothing to see here, everything was on the up-and-up, and the Birmingham folks were incorrect to correct the record.
The Trump presidency is so fucked up in every aspect.
Goodbye, Mr. McLean, it was good to know you. Thanks for trying. At least you should be able to find a good job in the private sector.
(McLean is a career scientist and lawyer who has worked for NOAA for nearly 30 years and was first promoted to head the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research by the Obama administration. Craig McLean named new leader for NOAA Research)
‘ETHICS’? You’re asking us to believe that you guys care about ‘ethics’? WTF? You pretended that the POTUS somehow did NOT have access to the most CURRENT information and somehow had to rely on 4-day old projections put out by media. And now you’re going ‘probe’?
At least there’s one senior executive at NOAA with balls.
Trump merely needs to order McLean to retract his statement and shut down his ethics investigation.
Someone isn’t going to be “acting chief scientist” for much longer… 
The Alabama Hurricane Strike will take its place in the annals of history right alongside the infamous Bowling Green Massacre. Mark my words.
Case study in the matter being “self-evident.”
To get through to the seriousness of this issue, try this: it’s like a surgeon planning to operate on the left kidney when the surgery is on the right one. We depend on getting things correct.
I decided to move to the ECMWF to track hurricanes now. I feel a bit bad because I really like the NOAA, but I don’t trust them now. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
“…Whether ‘Political’ Statement Violated Ethics Code”
Dear Mr. McLean,
Um…YA THINK?!
With a Sharpie?
Look for Julie Kay Roberts, NOAA Director of Communications and former Trump campaign worker, to be wrapped up in this. Oh well, she can always go to the Trump 2020 campaign.
At least some of these solid government employees are willing to stand up to this crap.
There will come a day of reckoning and everyone of the Trump sycophants will regret begging for money on a street corner.
Well, Happy Monday! Two farcical “investigations” (USAF and this) for the price of one!
There should be several dozen whistleblower complaints about this, citing the waste of taxpayer monies.
And that’s the answer right there, the NOAA statement will be found to have originated in the communication shop, which is why it wasn’t signed.
What Trump doesn’t seem to understand is that the real dispute is not that he used days old data to send a warning but that he used days old data to send a warning which should always be based only on current data. Frightening people and causing confusion is like yelling fire in a theater when there is no fire. It puts people at risk, That’s what he is not understanding. It is reckless and very distributing that he doesn’t see this (but not surprising) It’s all about him in his mind and not what’s the best way to help Americans in a time of need. But, then it is always about him.