Senator Marco Rubio is expected to pound the Eastern seaboard tonight. If you value your life, please seek shelter from Michele Bachmann.
Ivan, Sandy, Andrew and Katrina might meet gender equality standards, but they are our friends and neighbors. The good folks at 350.org have a better idea - let's name our newly created class of superstorms after the climate deniers who enabled them.
Movie after the Eye of the Tempest (2:17).
Reality deniers like these.
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. As scientific evidence shows that climate change is creating increasingly frequent and devastating storms, and with climate scientists declaring these extreme weather events as the new normal, we propose a new naming system. A system that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy.
What are the chances? Probably not very good, although you never know - stranger things have happened. But there's real power in this novel and interesting message as a simple result of its potential for wide dissemination. It needs to go viral.
Sign 350.org's petition here, and spread the good word.