We should name them after oil company executives.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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Not in the nose enough. Name them after the companies. Increment them if/when necessary.
“Everyone stay indoors next week as the BP2 heat wave sweeps across the continent.”
nah, everyone knows the corrupt companies names.
applies human names and faces to the corruption so they can't as easily just live freely into he world.
they deserve nonstop harassment and ridicule anywhere they go at all times. make them flee this planet.
Include lobbyist and owned politician names separated by hyphens.
Instead of incrementing, assign numbers with no real meaning.
Remember BP86 last year? Remember BP165 the year before?
Efficient.
The Sawan sweltering
Greenpeace Canada wanted to name the Alberta Tarsands tailing ponds after oil execs and politicians that enabled them to happen. They never did it, but it seemed like a good idea.
We do, though it is a recent thing.
2017: Lucifer
They should have started out cooler IMO!
Any idea about 2026? I'm living through the second here.
Name them after billionaires CEOs.
They'd bid just to get their name on it.
Honestly fine, it strips them of some of their wealth. I'd be happy to complain about Heatwave Bezos
Hotty McHotface
Claude. Like the AI accelerating it.
Unless we name them more "kiki" and less "bouba" then we'll have the same issue with people not taking them seriously.
Hurricane "Katrina" sounds like an annoying neighbor, but Hurricane "Windsmasher" is easier to explain how to lose a whole coastline.
I dub the current one: Heatwave "Pedofire" in honor of the ones who deny it's a problem.
Doug as in we Doug ourselves a hole.
New Normal
Heat wave names:
Scorchy McScorchface
Sweatbelly
Steamroll
Barbie Q
Hot Enough For Ya?
Li'l Sizzle
Dewflaps
"The Grill"
FUPA
Sweaty Betty.
Exxon?
Bernard
Here's my personal list :
- Amancio
- Bernard
- Claude
- Donald
- Elon
- Françoise
- George
- Henry
- Iris
- Jeff
- Ken
- Larry
- Mark
This list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it.
Scorchio
Sweatpocalypse
"Celsius To Fahrenheit...Oh, OK, Not That Hot."
Here comes heat wave Aaauughh.
Barry.
How about sven or Joseph after the first scientists that predicted this at 18XX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science
Greta
Hot Coldman
Hubert.
Trump deserves one.
The Big Beautiful Heatwave
BP 2187
Donald
There was talk about doing that officially, actually, before our world became collectively stupider in recent years. The argument is actually to get people to take them more seriously since they cause deaths just as much as any other climate crisis. Name and rating, similar to hurricanes.