Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. His beat is focused on the intersection of climate change and business activity, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, clean technology and smart grid applications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
President Trump yesterday toured the destroyed northwest Florida coast, where he expressed anguish and disbelief at the destruction wrought by Hurricane Michael only hours after denying that climate change has a role in accelerating tropical storms.
Tourism authorities call Mexico Beach, Fla., "the Unforgettable Coast." That's even more true now after haunting images show the seaside town turned to splinters by Hurricane Michael.
Roughly 375,000 Floridians were advised to evacuate the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday afternoon. But some of the state's most at-risk residents may not have had the tools to get out.
President Trump asked a lot of questions about hurricanes yesterday. He didn't mention climate change, but he might as well have. His inquiries about the strength, intensification and rain related to Hurricane Michael might have connections to rising temperatures.
Hurricane Michael is expected to make landfall later today in one of Florida's least populated corners, a rural expanse of the Panhandle known more for pine forests and oyster beds than oceanfront towers.