Enviros Pin Disastrous Weather to Pols

By Warren Rojas

Posted August 27, 2013 at 2:13pm

The 350 Action Fund has poured some money into a new campaign aimed at naming catastrophic meteorological events after sitting lawmakers who seem to pay the weather no mind.

</p> <p>In addition to the handful of elected officials lampooned in the promotional video, the powers that be behind ClimateNameChange.org call out more than <a href="https://climatenamechange.org/#/deniers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">three dozen elected officials</a> — mostly Republicans, though a few Democrats made the cut — that the group believes are either actively opposing or dragging their feet on climate issues.</p> <p>The environmentalists are asking supporters to <a href="https://climatenamechange.org/#/petition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sign a petition</a> urging the World Meteorological Organization to switch from arbitrarily naming threatening storms to hanging them around the necks of perceived obstructionists.</p> <p>Should they succeed, the nightly news may soon be flooded with election-crushing visuals like these:</p><script id="5e2bd50d2be64735bd9c6970a280aeab">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9484058d-cb86-4c6b-b476-f5e62bd11798&cid=69ef7590-f88b-4a7b-b1ad-bbee64894f4f'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "9484058d-cb86-4c6b-b476-f5e62bd11798" }).render("5e2bd50d2be64735bd9c6970a280aeab"); });</script></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCjb82613-445x244.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCmr82613-445x200.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCpr82613-445x229.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCmb82613-445x244.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCdv82613-445x265.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCcp82613-445x235.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://hoh.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/CNCji82613-445x225.png?w=1024" alt="(Screenshot)" /><figcaption>(Screenshot)</figcaption></figure></div></body>

Enviros Pin Disastrous Weather to Pols

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