Scott Dance is a reporter for The New York Times covering the ways climate change and extreme weather are transforming society.
My work illustrates the consequences of global warming for people, communities and businesses. I’m interested in demonstrating the human and economic impacts of surging heat waves, rising seas, intensifying storms and worsening floods, showing readers the realities of what can otherwise seem like abstract or distant concepts.
I also lead The Times’s coverage of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, tracking federal policies that shape how we cope with extreme weather.
My goal is to help readers see how climate change is already affecting their lives, and in ways that scientists say could accelerate as long as we keep burning fossil fuels, whose emissions are warming the planet through the greenhouse effect.