We should name them after oil company executives.

We do, though it is a recent thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_named_heat_waves

Hotty McHotface

Claude. Like the AI accelerating it.

Name them after billionaires CEOs.

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.

Heat wave names:

Scorchy McScorchface
Sweatbelly
Steamroll
Barbie Q
Hot Enough For Ya?
Li'l Sizzle
Dewflaps
"The Grill"

Bernard

Sweaty Betty.

New Normal

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

Exxon?

Here comes heat wave Aaauughh.

Barry.

Greta

Hubert.

Hot Coldman

Trump deserves one.

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.

BP 2187

Donald