We should name them after car manufacturers.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Oil companies.
I'd be perfectly fine with coal companies too, but they're mostly not household names
They can be lol
Exactly!
“This heat wave is sponsored by Aramco”
Yes. Name them after the corporations and politicians most responsible for global heating!
And their CEOs too
That would probably be a better option, it would make it possible to sneak a couple names in before anyone notices.
OMG THIS!
We’ll run out of names pretty quick
There are a lot of executives at oil companies.
Hurricane names are periodically reused. These can be too.
Please no, I'm already annoyed by this damn fad of naming the 'phenomenon of the week'. I can't really point my finger on why (so it's probably irrational) but it has always irked me.
To me, it infantilises a potentially devastating phenomena
We'll run out of names soon.