by Juan Cole | Nov 25, 2025 | Bill Gates, Category 5, Climate Crisis, data centers, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fossil Fuels, Hurricane Melissa, Op-Ed, silicon valley
In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage. That Category 5 storm’…
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by Amy Goodman | Oct 29, 2025 | Bill Gates, Billionaires, Climate Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Hurricane Melissa, Hurricanes, Interview, Jamaica
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not yet known because communication remains limited. Mikaela Loach, a Jamaican British climate justice activist, says the hurricane was “caused by the…
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