14 DAY TRIAL // Greenheads working with and supporting advocacy organization 350.org are now asking that the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, for short) look into the possibility of changing the system currently used to name tropical storms.
These activists are asking that, instead of being named after ordinary folks, such storms be named after politicians who deny climate change, and whose working agenda promotes activities that will do no more and no less except fuel ongoing environmental changes.
The environmentalists base their claim on the fact that, according to several studies, climate change and global warming will up the frequency of hurricanes and other extreme weather manifestations.
Thus, naming storms after people who dismiss the findings of these investigations would be the perfect way to shame them, and maybe even force them to reconsider their views on the matter at hand.
According to Mongabay, the policy makers who 350.org members believe should more or less willingly lend their names to storms are those who oppose the idea that greenhouse gases released by human activities are to blame for climate change and global warming.
Senator Marco Rubio and House Speaker John Boehner are just two of the climate change deniers the folks at 350.org would like to see are held accountable for not supporting measures to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Check out the video below to get a better idea of what the people at 350.org have in mind.
Hoping to convince the WMO to listen to their plea, the greenheads have started an online petition, which reads as follows:
“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.”
Those wishing to sign the petition can do so here.
