A flurry of newly released emails from scientists and top officials at the federal agency responsible for weather forecasting clearly illustrates the consternation and outright alarm caused by President Trump’s false claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama. Climate science is a hoax?” Craig McLean, NOAA’s acting chief scientist, wrote in an email sent to the agency’s top officials. The statement was issued after the White House and Commerce Department intervened, the AP and others reported at the time. AdvertisementIt provoked angry emails from within the agency and from the public. “Apparently the President is convinced that Alabama was in the path of Dorian and someone altered a NOAA map (with a Sharpie) to convince folks,” NOAA official Makeda Okolo wrote in an email to chief operating officer Benjamin Friedman and others.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 01, 2020 20:03 UTC