Are the European Wildfires a Sign of a Climate Tipping Point?

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Wildfire risk is no longer confined to the places people expect. 

Wildfire risk is no longer confined to the places people expect. A UC San Diego environmental economist explains why that matters.

Wildfires are burning across parts of Europe, including regions many people may not associate with severe fire risk. So what do these fires reveal about the changing nature of climate risk?

We posed that question to Judson Boomhower, associate professor of economics at the University of California San Diego School of Social Sciences.

Boomhower is an environmental economist whose research examines wildfire risk, disaster insurance and the costs of a changing climate.

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