'The Dorian affair isn’t just about any ham-handed wielding of a black marker by the president. It’s about an all-out assault on government science,' writes columnist hiltzikm.
. The nomination has remained in limbo ever since, though it could be brought to the Senate floor for confirmation at any time by a wave of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hand. In the meantime, NOAA has been led by a succession of acting directors, the latest of whom, Neil Jacobs, came to the job bearing his own trail of potential conflicts of interest.The harvest of that mess has lately been on public display.
“The mood at NOAA was that they’d narrowly escaped what’s going on at the EPA and Interior,” says Andrew Rosenberg, a former NOAA official now at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “But this puts everyone there in the spotlight in a really negative way.”The episode began on Sept. 1 when Trump tweeted out a warning that Alabama, among other states, would “most likely be hit harder than anticipated” by Hurricane Dorian, which was then barreling toward the Florida coastline.
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