Naming Hurricanes After Politicians Who Deny Climate Change


This 5 September 2013 video is called Should Hurricane James Inhofe hit the East Coast?

Another video, not on YouTube anymore, used to say about itself: says about itself:

Aug 26, 2013

Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy.

See also here.

14 thoughts on “Naming Hurricanes After Politicians Who Deny Climate Change

    • Hi, I hope that, while your daughter is at school, there will not be a real destructive hurricane called “Holly” by metereologists. She might be teased about that then (one of the reasons for this new proposal about politicians’ names).

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