We watched LA burn this year. If you're not from around here, you might have seen it unfold in the news like so many other infernos. Neighborhoods in ashes. People in shock. I was nearby when it happened in January, visiting home from New York to attend a family member's funeral. As a climate journalist, I was thankful that I wasn't covering this disaster in real time. Instead, I was with my family, trying to keep track of which freeways were closed because of the blazes, whether that might keep any of us from reaching the service, and whether the flames might be headed our way. That's become a part of life in Southern California. It's g …Read the full story at The Verge.