Bill Proenza fired
Posted by
cypresstx on 2/11/2013, 10:45 am
it's been a chaotic week, I just read about this today in the blogosphere
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/02/02/weather-service-regional-director-fired/
The National Weather Service moved to fire one of its top managers Friday, four days after he was quoted in an article in The Washington Post lamenting that budget cuts and the threat of further reductions in March were forcing him to pare back a public safety service.
William Proenza and his supporters called his firing a retaliation for going public with a plan to shut down radars on sunny days in the South to save power costs.
"It's penny-wise and pound-foolish to try and save a few dollars if you're going to degrade our capacity to deliver our mission," Proenza told The Post, describing a less-than-optimal cost-cutting strategy as the financially challenged Weather Service braces for $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that may occur across the government on March 1.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-02-05/news/sfl-former-hurricane-center-director-fired-20130205_1_weather-service-noaa-bill-proenza
"My purpose was genuinely to make sure the weather service could deliver its mission," Proenza said Tuesday. "When money is tight, we have to decide top priorities, and I can't think of a higher priority than protection of life."
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