NEW YORK TIMES: I'm a Climate Scientist -- I Fled Los Angeles Two Years Ago. 

Peter Kalmus writes about the Altadena home he raised his children in burning. 

He left what he once considered paradise in 2022 because feared fire. 

But even he didn't see this coming.

FROM THE OPED:  One lesson climate change teaches us again and again is that bad things can happen ahead of schedule. 

Model predictions for climate impacts have tended to be optimistically biased.

But now, unfortunately, the heating is accelerating, outpacing scientists' expectations.