• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, August 27, 2013

350 Action, a climate change activist group, launched a great campaign targeting politicians who don’t believe climate change exists. The organization is petitioning the World Meteorlogical Organization to change the way storms are named. Rather than having a Hurricane Dennis wreak havoc on your city, one would be prepping for a disaster named David Vitter, Marco Rubio, John Boehner or Paul Ryan. Supporting the petition found at ClimateNameChange.org is a video that begins with average folks playing bingo and swimming. Sadly, their names are synonymous with horrible hurricanes and storms of the past, like Katrina, Ivan, Andrew and Katrina. Boarded-up homes and businesses are shown with “Shove it, Andrew,” “Go away Katrina” and “Ivan sucks” spray-painted on them. Rather than ruin a perfectly good name for eternity, the video marries footage from actual storms with proposed name changes. So destructive footage from super storm Sandy is referred to as “David Vitter brings fury to East Coast.” When enough signatures are gathered, the petition will be presented to the W.M.O. for consideration. See the video here, created by Barton F. Graf 9000 .