Publication: Bloomberg

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climatologist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: Swain was featured warning that wildfires threaten to wreak over $200 billion in global damage.

UCLA News: At the epicenter of the fury will be the U.S. West, where the decades-long megadrought has led to an “aridification,” according to Swain. In fact, the climate in the region is so permanently changed that it no longer makes sense to call the situation a drought. Instead, he says, it’s just a new, much dryer, landscape.

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