12 October 2017
Roger Rabbit’s No Longer Running Accuwx. Now He’s Going to Run NOAA
Posted by Dan Satterfield
This:
… and my response, (written in 2013) when Accuwx started selling snake oil 45-day weather forecasts.
Click here to read the post from 2013.
This is not going to go over very well inside NOAA and that may be the greatest understatement of the year.
Dan,
This is terrible news indeed. All who benefit from NOAA’s work (that would be many, but not everyone realizes it) should call their Congressional representatives. Myers obviously has a conflict of interest: and will likely not want the NWS to provide services that adversely impact his company. And as you point out, his expertise is not aligned at all with the broad mission NOAA provides.
This administration did well with the FEMA head – someone with emergency management experience.
There is a clear need for a professional – not in the private industry in partial conflict with NOAA/NWS tasks – to head up NOAA and advocate for it before Congress. We need to inform Congress just how poor a choice this is and to reject this choice.
I guess you’ve looked at NOAA’s FAQ on Climate Change from the right sidebar?
Yup.
https://www.climate.gov/ works, for now
You would do a fine job as head of NOAA!