Name and shame

Courtesy of our local talk radio station, CKTB, we learn of a new initiative from a climate change lobby group called 350.org.   They are raising a petition to demand that hurricanes and major storms, currently given alternating male and female names according to a pre-set list. should instead be named after politicians who deny climate change.  This whole movement really is turning into an intolerant cult, isn't it?  What's next, tarring and feathering?

Anyway, great timing, guys.  At the time of writing, we have now gone longer into any Atlantic hurricane season since records were kept, without a single tropical storm reaching hurricane strength.  It's also been an unusually long time since any hurricane hit the US mainland*.

So it certainly seems as if the climate is changing.  Just not in the way that 350.org seems to believe.

* Sandy, last November, was only a tropical storm when it made landfall.  That's why the media hastily renamed it "Superstorm Sandy".