{"id":3855,"date":"2013-08-26T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:11","slug":"we-should-name-hurricanes-after-climate-change-denying-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/we-should-name-hurricanes-after-climate-change-denying-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"We should name hurricanes after climate change denying politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-26-at-11.30.02-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-26-at-11.30.02-PM-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane Marco Rubio\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-26-at-11.30.02-PM-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-26-at-11.30.02-PM-225x124.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-26-at-11.30.02-PM.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I agree: we need a new naming convention for tropical storms and hurricanes. The Ivans, Andrews and Katrinas of this world should not be made to suffer when the blame for climate change rests largely on the shoulders of climate change denying politicians who continue to encourage commercialization of natural resources and phenomenal pollution of our beloved Planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>In future, let us have Hurricanes Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Michelle Bachman and Senator Marco Rubio &#8230; and leave the unnamed innocents to remain peaceably anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/efAUCG9oTb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree: we need a new naming convention for tropical storms and hurricanes. The Ivans, Andrews and Katrinas of this world should not be made to suffer when the blame for climate change rests largely on the shoulders of climate change denying politicians who continue to encourage commercialization of natural resources and phenomenal pollution of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/we-should-name-hurricanes-after-climate-change-denying-politicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We should name hurricanes after climate change denying politicians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,1192],"tags":[294,1242,1240,1241],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-politics-2","tag-climate-change","tag-denier","tag-hurricanes","tag-naming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}