• takeda@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The whole thing about the sharpie makes one wonder what is dumber, the suggestion itself or the base that would believe it.

    The reason why the circles are growing is to show uncertainty where the hurricane might go. The sharpie drawing shows that whomever drew it completely misunderstood what the map was showing.

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      4 months ago

      If I remember correctly the sharpie map was because Trump tweeted that Alabama was going to be affected and then after people called NOAA and they said Alabama was fine, Trump instead of admitting his mistake, repeated on Twitter that he was correct culminating in a press conference where he presented an official NOAA map that had sharpie drawn into Alabama.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy

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      4 months ago

      If we ban the agency that manufacturers all the hurricanes, maybe hurricanes won’t happen anymore. Hurricanes cause destruction to property and are a waste of taxpayer dollars especially when noaa scientists make 2 or 3 of them happen per year. /s