Shouldn’t Climate Denialism Now Be Criminalised?

Hurricane Melissa has forced Jamaica – and indeed CARICOM – into a new, terrifying clarity. As Professor Michael Taylor argued with scientific precision and humane concern in his recent Gleaner column, Melissa was not merely another storm. It was a climate-changed catastrophe: hotter seas feeding violent intensification, weakened steering winds rendering the hurricane almost stationary, and unprecedented rainfall systems fuelled by a warming world. And as Taylor notes, the damage was not only physical. Melissa left behind a nation emotionally shaken: exhausted, traumatised, and disoriented by days of anticipatory dread, hours of terror, and weeks of despair.

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