Campaign to name hurricanes after climate change deniers

Campaign to name hurricanes after climate change deniers(climatenamechange.org)

10 points by jgv 12 years ago | 7 comments

glenra 12 years ago |

Wow, is that a dumb idea. This might be a good time to re-read hurricane expert Chris Landsea's 2005 resignation letter from the IPCC:

http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/science_policy...

Quote: "It is beyond me why my colleagues would utilize the media to push an unsupported agenda that recent hurricane activity has been due to global warming."

S_A_P 12 years ago |

Without getting into the dogma of this discussion is this going to change the minds of these people? I could see this becoming a "badge" of sorts for the deniers.

mikeash 12 years ago | |

I imagine the idea is not to change their minds, but change the minds of people who are sitting on the fence.

I thought this was a bad idea until I saw that all of the proposed people are politicians.

swartzrock 12 years ago |

Oh yeah, attacking the disbelievers for their blasphemy in the name of Science is a great idea.

abtinf 12 years ago | |

Yes, that is how science works. Its called the scientific method.

1. Make up an untestable idea where you don't even know the sign of the result.

2. Shame others into accepting it.

3. Celebrate science.

fuqua 12 years ago |

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Will hurricane "Jim" really make people think about Senator Inhofe? I don't think so.

Lambdanaut 12 years ago | |

In the video, the hurricanes had the first and last names of the politicians.