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 Jon Queally | Oct 28, 2025 | Category 5, Climate Crisis, cuba, Haiti, hurricane, Hurricane Melissa, hurricane season, Jamaica, News
The people of Jamaica are making emergency preparations on Monday as Hurricane Melissa intensified overnight, with meteorologists in awe of the scale and shape of the “monster” storm now bearing down on the island nation, already saturated from previous rains and bracing for what could be a major climate-related catastrophe. In a 5:00 am EDT advisory on Monday, the U.S.
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