An internet campaign has been launched to convince the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to name hurricanes after politicians who deny climate change.

The sardonic survey is attempting to change the WMO’s policy of naming storms in alphabetical order, organisers have even drawn up a list of American politicians they say obstruct progressive policy by denying reality.

Names on the list include Texas governor Rick Perry and speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner.

Campaigner Daniel Kessler says: “there are a number of people who refuse to accept the basic science of climate change which is now understood by every scientific academy in the world to be occurring and to be caused by man... we wanted to highlight in somewhat of a satirical way their intransigence and make sure that people know that they're obstructing progress.”