(NaturalNews) When Matt Drudge, founder of the popular Drudge Report news headline aggregation site, tweeted out recently that the federal government's preeminent weather agency might be just a bit politicized under the policy direction of President Obama, the "scientific" media went ballistic.

Guess Drudge must have hit a nerve or something.

As Hurricane Matthew was battering the Caribbean on its way to the Florida coastline, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which was tracking the storm and warning of its potential to develop into a Category 4 monster with winds over 150 miles per hour, Drudge was tweeting out that the agency's warnings might be just a bit overplayed:

Hurricane Center has no monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?

Drudge was making accurate observations about what NOAA was saying and the reality on the ground.

In addition, Drudge invoked a term used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to describe half of GOP opponent Donald J. Trump's supporters in a follow-up tweet that questioned NOAA's sincerity:

The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate...

These tweets prompted much consternation and response from establishment scientific journals and organizations that have bought into the whole government "climate change" narrative hook, line and sinker, including Popular Science, which ran a piece headlined, "Don't Take Weather Advice From Matt Drudge – Seriously, Stay Safe."

"And then there was Matt Drudge, who was instead declaring a state of conspiracy," wrote Grennan Milliken of PopSci. "The founder of the Drudge Report spent his evening blasting out tweets that the storm's forecast was grossly overblown. He even went so far as to accuse the government of exaggerating Hurricane Matthew's intensity just to make a point about the dangers of climate change. Not kidding. What. The. Bleep."