Former Chief Entangled in 'Sharpiegate' to Lead NOAA

Thursday, February 06, 2025

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 when Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map in what became known as the "Sharpiegate" scandal.

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President Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to head NOAA. Some former NOAA employees are concerned about Jacobs' scientific integrity after his prior involvement in "Sharpiegate."

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-- NPR (@npr.org) February 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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The demented orange pedo rewards another MAGA flunky who's going to get a bunch of people killed.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-05 11:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That eventually drew criticism of Jacobs and his political higher-ups in a Department of Commerce inspector general's report on Sharpiegate.

No worries. That Inspector General who foolishly tried to do his job and keep the government accountable for its actions to the American taxpayer has been fired.

We will be having no more of that kind of nonsense around here.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-05 11:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Remember when a congressman reportedly asked why the National Weather Service (NWS) was needed when the Weather Channel provided forecasts?

Good times, eh?

Yay us! We get to live them again!

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-05 12:05 PM | Reply

Maybe we should keep the hurricane shutters up year round because we won't be able to rely on NLAA any longer. I've heard weatherforcasters refer to the European models of hurricane path predictions so I think I will follow them rather than the bufoons left after the Trump Sharpie morons have removed the science from that agency's methods of prediction.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-06 12:11 PM | Reply

Sorry, NLAA should have been NOAA.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-06 12:46 PM | Reply