Climate change in the Caribbean – learning lessons from Irma and Maria

Increasingly unfamiliar and unpredictable weather events mean that business as usual is not an option for these islands to surviveAs a Caribbean climate scientist, I am often asked to speak about how climate change affects small islands. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, one of two category five storms to batter the eastern Caribbean in just a week, three words resonate in my mind. The first word is “unfamiliar”. Scientific analysis shows that the climate of the Caribbean region i