I’m a climate writer and author who has been covering the wildfires across Los Angeles. Ask me anything.

EDIT: Unfortunately, that’s it for me! I wish I could get to all of the other questions but hopefully we’ll have an opportunity to connect sometime again. In the meantime, thanks to everybody for reading, and all of your interest and concern about the fires. My heart goes out to all those in Los Angeles, and I hope we can find a way to be inspired by this unimaginable tragedy rather than retreat into hostile partisan bunkers. Here’s hoping…

Hey all, it’s David Wallace-Wells, a science writer at New York Times Opinion and The Times Magazine. I’ve written about the devastating wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, how housing policy contributes to the likelihood of gigafire burns and the palpable turn in the city’s perspective amid the aftermath.

I’ve described the dollars in damage of these fires, the social media blame game, the role of human failure and the ways global warming remodels the risk landscape beyond California. I have also spoken about the scope and tragedy of the L.A. disaster and why more wildfires are coming.

Before The New York Times, I wrote agenda-setting essays on the dangers and complexities of global warming at New York magazine. I am also the author of the 2019 book, “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.” 

Ask me anything about climate change, California wildfires and any other related topics. 

I’ll answer your questions from 12:30-1:30 p.m. E.T. on Thursday, Jan. 30.

Proof picture here.