OMFG - this is really bad news - they're fucking with NOAA Barry Lee Myers from AccuWeather [View all]

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/barry-lee-myers-nominated-head-noaa
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On Wednesday, October 11, the White House announced President Donald Trump’s intent to nominate Barry Lee Myers for the dual post of NOAA Administrator and Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Department of Commerce.

Myers is the first person from private industry nominated to head NOAA in the agency’s 46-year history. Prior to being named chief executive officer of AccuWeather in 2007, Myers served as the company’s executive vice president and general counsel. He has been “an integral part and leading force of AccuWeather executive management since shortly after the company’s founding,” according to a company news release. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Myers’s brother, meteorologist Joel Myers.

Myers holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics from Penn State and a law degree from the University of Boston. He is deeply familiar with issues involving public-private interactions in meteorology, owing in large part to his company’s wide-ranging weather forecasting activities. Myers also served for a number of years on the Environmental Information Services Working Group of NOAA’s Science Advisory Board.

In 2014, Myers received the Kenneth C. Spengler Award from the American Meteorological Society, an award that pays tribute to individuals who have fostered growth and worked to create synergies within the weather and climate enterprise. The AMS recognized Myers for “outstanding, highly principled leadership of the American weather industry over five decades and fostering strong cooperation between private sector and government weather services.”
Going beyond weather

Myers does not have an extensive background in NOAA’s wide-ranging mission areas outside of meteorology, including its oceanic elements—sometimes referred to as the “wet side.” Most of the ten prior NOAA administrators had either master’s or doctoral degrees in some form of Earth science. The only one who had no postgraduate background in science was Richard Frank, a lawyer nominated by the Carter administration who served from 1977 to 1981.
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There goes NOAA