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The Climate Corporation Adds Climate Peacock Byron Dorgan | WeatherBill, a company that offers automated weather insurance to farmers, has changed its name to the Climate Corporation (with the singular URL climate.com) and added former U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) to its board. “The Climate Corporation’s mission is to help the world’s people and businesses adapt to climate change,” the company’s website states, noting that “extreme weather from drought in Texas to record flooding in North Dakota has caused widespread crop loss.” The addition of Dorgan to the board gives the company political weight with a close friend of American agribusiness, but does not beef up their credentials in the fight against climate change. While in the Senate, Dorgan repeatedly found ways to criticize climate policy and defend his state’s coal industry.