{"id":4153,"date":"2025-02-05T21:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-picks-neil-jacobs-known-for-sharpie-gate-incident-to-head-noaa\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T21:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:59:03","slug":"trump-picks-neil-jacobs-known-for-sharpie-gate-incident-to-head-noaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-picks-neil-jacobs-known-for-sharpie-gate-incident-to-head-noaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks Neil Jacobs, known for &#8220;Sharpie-gate&#8221; incident, to head NOAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Neil Jacobs, who was acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2019 when President Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-hurricane-map-briefing-today-shows-dorian-tracker-seemingly-altered-with-black-pen-or-sharpie-marker-2019-09-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">altered an expected hurricane impact map<\/a><\/span> \u2014 an incident known as &#8220;Sharpie-gate&#8221; \u2014 has again been picked by Mr. Trump to lead the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who has worked in both the public and private sectors over the last two decades, and other leaders of the agency were criticized in a Department of Commerce inspector general&#8217;s report about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 1, 2019, as the National Weather Service was forecasting that Hurricane Dorian would move up the Atlantic coast, Mr. Trump incorrectly tweeted that Alabama was in the storm&#8217;s path.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, the National Weather Service in Alabama tweeted, &#8220;Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, on Sept. 4, Mr. Trump insisted that the storm had previously been on a course for the state. He displayed a week-old map of the storm path, altered with a black marker to portray the hurricane as potentially heading for Alabama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the original chart,&#8221; Mr. Trump said. &#8220;It was going to hit not only Georgia but Florida. 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