We've had virtually no communication with Carriacou in the last 12 hours except briefly this morning by satellite phone,
You want to be in a safe place where you can ride out the storm by nightfall (Tuesday),
It's startling to see this happen before your eyes, but it's also kind of in line with what the science tells us we might expect in a warmer world,
It's hard to communicate how unbelievable this is,
The possibility that there may be more fatalities remains a grim reality as movement is still highly restricted.”
We are most concerned about Jamaica, where we are expecting the core of a major hurricane to pass near or over the island,
Disasters on a scale that used to be the stuff of science fiction are becoming meteorological facts, and the climate crisis is the chief culprit,
Everyone, including those living alone, should take these necessary steps now,
We are very concerned. We’ve experienced back in 2004 a hurricane similar to this one. It was more devastating. It took down about 90 to 95 percent of our houses and so it was really hard to build back. And so having experienced a hurricane of that magnitude and then yesterday again having to experience a Category 4 hurricane with threats of more to come, it raises our anxiety,
Whether in my homeland of Carriacou, hammered by Hurricane Beryl, or in the heatwaves and floods crippling communities in some of the world’s largest economies, it’s clear that the climate crisis is pushing disasters to record-breaking new levels of destruction,
I’ve seen nutmeg, I’ve seen cocoa, I’ve seen coconut – I’ve seen just about everything destroyed by this powerful catastrophic hurricane,
Beryl is expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands Wednesday night and Thursday,
The best strategy to reduce the likelihood of these types of extremes is to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases,
Climate change is stacking the dice in favor of events like that,
A lot of our infrastructure was built for a different climate than we’ve seen today,
It’s important to remember there was extreme weather before climate change,
To date we can say that, unfortunately, two people have died, five are missing, and we are in a permanent, direct search (for survivors and victims),
We are talking about 25,000 people affected by the rains,
I am encouraging all Jamaicans to take the hurricane as a serious threat,
As a nation, we are coming to grips with the devastation” in Carriacou and Petite Martinique