Posted on 04/17/2015 1:41:45 PM PDT by markomalley
'Isis' has been removed from the official list of names of future hurricanes as it was now deemed inappropriate because of the eponymous militant group, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
As the name of an ancient goddess of Egypt, Isis had been on the WMO list of names for hurricanes in the eastern North Pacific in 2016, WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis said.
But ISIS is also used to describe the Islamic State militant group, whose forces have captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria and which stands accused by U.N. war crimes investigators of committing brutal atrocities against civilians.
The proposal by the WMO regional center was endorsed by the WMO Hurricane Committee, composed of experts from 27 member states and territories meeting in Costa Rica this week, Nullis said. "The Hurricane Committee removed the name "Isis" from the rotating list, and agreed to replace it with "Ivette"."
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I would have replaced it with “Islam.”
the perfect choice indeed, the reports of the death and devastation wrought by ISLAM...might have presented a clear clue..as to its namesakes true ......nature
Is Hillary on the list of hurricane names??
How about the next big one we call Hurricane Wookie!
JoAnna Cameron is saddened.
So is Malory Archer.
I survived Hurricane Hugo. But damn if I’d say I survived Hurricane Deshawn.
Since when did they name hurricanes? I nominate “The UN Blows” as a hurricane name.
Ah, so THAT’S why the Ø regime only refers to ISIL. They were just setting an example for the WMO Hurricane Committee to not use ISIS as well.
Who woulda thunk it!? And, to think I just jumped to the erroneous conclusion the Ø regime was using ISIL as a means of trying to effectively wipe out Israel.
Afraid of offending the jihadists?
And these UN idiots don’t even know that Yvette is spelled with a Y, not an I.
Hmmm
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