Maybe it's name to name particularly destructive storms after oil companies...
and other major polluters? Or people who profit from or fail to reign in pollution? Just a thought.
I mean, what does Katrina or Sandy tell you about a storm?
Now, I know that hurricanes and typhoons are named well before any major damage is done, and before anyone can predict how much damage might be caused. So if a storm becomes particularly destructive, then it will have to be renamed. But there's no law that says that can't be done.
Maybe if we give these destructive storms new names, the connection would be more obvious.
So Hurricane Katrina could have been renamed Hurricane Bush.
Hurricane Sandy could have been renamed Hurricane Exxon-Mobil.
Chevron, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Massey Coal, Koch Industries, BP. They're all begging to have a major hurricane or typhoon named after them.
List of other companies here... http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxicair_current/
It's just a matter of cause (pollution) and effect (bigger and more destructive storms).
