NOAA Officials Feared Firings After Trump’s Hurricane Claims, Inspector General Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/climate/trump-hurricane-dorian-noaa.html?auth=login-facebook


By Christopher Flavelle and Lisa Friedman
July 9, 2020


The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration felt that his job and the jobs of others would be in jeopardy if the agency did not rebuke forecasters who contradicted President Trump’s inaccurate claim last year about the path of Hurricane Dorian, a government report found.

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