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California has a Mediterranean climate and has proven capable of supporting millions of humans, not to mention feeding hundreds of millions more with its agricultural exports. Talk about absurd. California is clearly an extremely safe place for humans. That's just a fact.

We would need a hundred billion of them. Edit: Also, from experience, unless you rip out the roots (not an easy thing to do), they WILL grow back. Sheep might get at some of the root, but there is just no way to fight these things without a genetic solution. Like I said earlier, they EASILY...

Some species are just better at survival than others, especially when introduced outside of their native environment. This particular weed is just damn good at surviving and spreading. This particular monster is relatively new to the US and has already taken over. Barring some genetic attack...

California has 105 MILLION acres and 40 MILLION people spread everywhere on those acres. How many controlled burns are you going to do? Just to point out how impossible that task is, a tiny little controlled burn on the back side of California got out of control in 2016 and burned down a few...

Again, it is about religion. If you can control the message religion spreads, facts, logic, and reality, are, by definition, not important. Why are most climate deniers religious? Because they are easy targets for manipulation. Why do churches preach politics? Follow the money.

Lol. Check out the Colorado river. California does its best to NOT let any water get to the pacific.

The core of "climate change denial" is the belief that in order to stop climate change, you must control the economy. It is basically taught, dominantly in churches, that it is a communist conspiracy. It has nothing to do with science and everything to do with a fear of government control.

You don't need trees to have big fires that burn houses. This year's Martin fire burned hundreds of square miles and not a single tree in sight: https://thenevadaindependent.com/articl ... age-grouse

Indeed. Which, oddly, is why more and more people move deeper into the more fire prone areas, which of course makes the fires more costly in human terms.

They'll fare better in a localized fire sure, but once you have a firestorm, it is going to burn. Even if the walls stand, all your stuff is melted and you'll never get the smell out. You asked why so many burned, it is because they were close to each other and other external fuels and this is...

Not all of these fires are about trees. The ones in Southern California often just burn shrubs which have no lumber value. Remember the Oakland firestorm that burned from house to house? Homes themselves are fuel. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-his ... land-hills Besides, you would have...

Unless it is a concrete jail, if it is in a firestorm that can melt a car, it's going to burn no matter what your code says.

As far as the smaller towns like Paradise go, people live there precisely because it is full of trees and forests and partially wild. They hate subdivisions and big cities. If you cut down all the trees and managed to mow an infinite expanse of weeds and brush, nobody would want to live there.

Growing up in Northern California, I heard the exact same augment constantly. I don't know if it is because they are predominantly Republican, or if the severe downturn the lumber industry took around the Clinton presidency colored their views. Many people in those areas have been saying land...

Yeah the Camp fire looks like it spans the elevations where the oaks turn into pines (about 3500' elevation).

Yeah the star thistles are an invasive species, and they can grow as tall as a man and are just thick as sin and completely, absolutely dry. They cover most of the lower elevations of the state now and there are constant fires that burn them every year, but they always come back. Without a...

I used to live in the foothills south of the Camp fire, at about the same elevation. The grass/star thistles grow for a few weeks, then turns into unimaginably dangerous material that is fuel for for the rest of the year with any tossed cigarette or hot car brakes. Then you add in the dense...

Will I still get Candy Crush and Xbox programs that can't be uninstalled? The point is they spend time on garbage "features" instead of being 100% stable.

I just want stable software. I don't need more "features".

The internet wasn't designed as a marketplace. How many Facebook users, ie its content developers get paid?