President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Jacobs was Trump’s acting NOAA chief when he was swept up in the “Sharpiegate” scandal in which Trump drew on a map to expand the area expected to be hit by a hurricane in 2019. Jacobs’ agency chastised Alabama meteorologists who on social media had contradicted an inaccurate Trump storm warning tweet. Jacobs and his political higher-ups were criticized in the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General report about Sharpiegate, as well as in a second outside report. Jacobs is a scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, where he has spearheaded efforts to combine different computer forecasting systems for weather and climate into a single system. President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Jacobs was Trump’s acting NOAA chief when he was swept up in the “Sharpiegate” scandal in which Trump drew on a map to expand the area expected to be hit by a hurricane in 2019. Jacobs’ agency chastised Alabama meteorologists who on social media had contradicted an inaccurate Trump storm warning tweet. Jacobs and his political higher-ups were criticized in the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General report about Sharpiegate, as well as in a second outside report. Jacobs is a scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, where he has spearheaded efforts to combine different computer forecasting systems for weather and climate into a single system. AP Technology and Science
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