drhousejr

logging policies are making things worse

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Loggin...

wasnt miami supposed to be in the ocean a few years ago according to al?

"The Camp fire happened because we received precisely zero inches of precipitation from the beginning of April, to the end of November this year, not because of a spark."

absolutely ridiculous assumption and overreach.

There are far too many people looking to point to climate change for every natural disaster that occurs. Many areas in California are naturally hot, dry, and prone to fires much of the year.

we are building more and more houses / structures in fire prone areas, making it worse.

"by 2050, 645,000 houses in California will be built in “very high” wildfire severity zones."

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/7/17661096/california-wildfires-2...

we also contribute to it beyond just starting the fires directly (power lines, vehicles, appliances, etc), we make the conditions worse with poor land management

"Some researchers said that logging in the burned area after a fire in 2008, which was intended to clear out fuels and make this part of Northern California safer, may have had the opposite result. The logging may have left fast-burning weeds and young trees in the fire’s path."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/us/camp-fire-paradise-cau...

A study published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, or PNAS, found that 84 percent of wildfires are ignited by humans, whether through downed power lines, careless campfires, or arson.

“Human-started wildfires ... tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned,” the paper reported.

wow, thats incredibly scary. Would you only know that once its too late? How would it be corrected? Again...very scary..

agreed -- misleading title. Should read "..Stop Selling Sedans"

Same here! Seems to pop up every 6mo to a year, but yet nothing ever changes in the industry. I just found out I have a cavity and the dentist wants to fill it. I am trying to avoid it at all costs though, so this is pretty timely for me. The problem is that its in between my teeth, and even when I try really hard with brushing and flossing in the area, there still seems to be food particles that get in.

I had to stop reading after that typo... how does that happen?

One of the dumbest comments I've read on HN.

i can confirm, that is nonsense

I don't think that's actually true...

"Cloudflare now powers the only compliant non-Google AMP cache with all the same performance and security benefits as Google."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/

The term "compliant" would make it seems as though Google has them as a trusted source now and as such will show that content in AMP features in Google