Newly released emails show the dismay of scientists and top officials at NOAA over President Trump's false claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.
A top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official even called the president’s behavior “crazy.”
The emails, released late Friday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from the Associated Press and others, give an inside picture of the scramble to respond to the president and the turmoil it caused inside the federal agency.“What’s next? Climate science is a hoax?” Craig McLean, NOAA’s acting chief scientist, wrote in an email sent to the agency’s top officials. “Flabbergasted to leave our forecasters hanging in the political wind.
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