I wrote a book! "The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America." It's available on March 25th, 2025. Pre-order it here: davidpakman.com/echo
I’ll purchase one. Please refrain from the fake word “preorder”. It’s not possible to order before you order. It’s not possible to preheat an oven or preorder a car.
I’ll purchase one. Please refrain from the fake word “preorder”. It’s not possible to order before you order. It’s not possible to preheat an oven or preorder a car.
@@timmackinnon5547 You can't preheat a microwave, either, though I would love to see Musk try! Anyway 'preorder' is not a fake word. You should have checked ChatGPT befoe making that blunder. After all chatgpi is much better than Wikipedia, and it explains: The word "preorder" means to place an order for a product before it is available for purchase or before it is officially released.
You know, climate change contributes, but it's also a fact that California does not manage dead forests and underbrush well at all, and L.A did cut fire fighting budgets. Also the Santa Ana winds have always been a huge thing here. It's a perfect storm of a lot of issues. There is nuance to these things.
Yep. The only difference is in Texas millionaires don't have their luxury homes built in the fire hazard areas, so nobody (read "no journalist") cared.
Texas resident weighing in. A quibble. That was not a forest fire but a grassland fire in a remote rural area. Granted it did destroy a small town in the "Panhandle", but it was not forest. That still doesn't detract from your central point.
@@RichTex-e6d This has been happening since the deregulation of the state's electric grid. It has nothing to do with EVs. Because of deregulation, you have an infinite number of "electric companies," but none of these companies maintain the infrastructure. Every time the grid goes down, more than 13 states have to send in their professionals to get it back up.
I love how the guy who speaks on a podium that says "America First" is also the same guy who's replacing American workers with foreign Visa holders. It's like a sign from the Heavens.
Let's also remember the mismanagement in the 2021, when Texas failed to address their power grid issues, blamed the outages on renewable energy while nearly 300 people died, and Turd Cruz absconded to Cancun because he couldn't deal with the cold.
@@TW-SB You can prevent some forest fires. The recent CA wildfires, fueled by unprecedented windstorms were also probably preventable if policymakers took anthropogenic climate change seriously.
So is geography beyond the mere "point to Colorado on a map" and "What's the capital of Poland?" questions. I learned what makes So. Cal. so dry in - granted an upper division level undergrad geography class. Even so, the average degreed person should know that in every topic, there's always more than meets the eye. It's one think for people without four year degrees not to notice, But otherwise? smh
With Musk having roots in SA and Zambia, he should know there’s been historic drought here in Zambia, so much so that the hydropower on which Zambia relies, is operating under 10% capacity from the Kariba Dam which is virtually a dry bed because of lack of rains over the last 20 months. Maize crops are devastated. And a major city like Lusaka, 3.5 million people, has 2-3 hours of power per day to conserve electricity. This is all because of climate change. I thought Elon was a genius. An average Zambian knows more than he does about the state of the world.
Absolutely. When I visited SA a few years ago, anyone I spoke to about him didn’t like him. All that money and he doesn’t help communities in his own country, baffling when he thinks he’s gonna help USA
I feel exactly the same and have since Trump first emerged with his lies, selling everything under the sun, cheating people and getting away with everything without consequence. It is driving me mad
Or make some school for the less wealthy, or an hispital, or clean the sea, or, or.... so many things to do, but ya, doesnt make money, so who care huh, these people are soooooo hypocrite.
I was agnostic about these billionaires until they started getting obnoxious now I think we need a new tax scheme to keep them from turning into trillionaires. If you think they’re bad now just wait.
Exactly. All he does is buy the presidency for trump and is trying to buy the overthrowing of governments in other countries. He has so much money that he thinks he can do anything. Then do something charitable with it. Help people that are suffering you b*****d.
I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem -- greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My husband and I will be retiring in the next two years in another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific lnvestment account with Tracy Britt Cool Consulting my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.
< I know this FA you just mentioned. Tracy Britt Cool is a portfolio manager and investment advisor. She gained recognition as an employee of Berkshire Hattaway; a renowned investor she is. Ms Tracy has demonstrated expertise in investment strategies and has been involved in managing portfolios and providing guidance to clients.
The debt issue is less a spending issue than an income issue. Just think how much the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts + the SS taxes cap have shortened the US finances. This is more than the current debt. Working people did not profit from these tax loopholes, only passive income earners did.
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for six months to raise about $30k to start investing with Tracy Britt Cool. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
Please how can I liase with this FA? I am seeking for a very effective investment approach for my savings which gradually depreciates in value due to inflation
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with "Tracy Britt Cool Consulting" for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She's quite known in her field, look--her up.
WAIT WAIT WAIT!! I'm a retired electronic engineer, Leon doesn't know shit about technology. He never worked as an engineer, never designed anything. He is a more toxic version of Steve Jobs. He got rich off the work of people like Steve Wozniak
Jobs at least did work with Wozniak, and knew which designs to promote and which to bin - mostly. Yes Jobs was a horrible man whose beliefs eventually led to his death, but he did make a success of Apple. Wozniak on his own would have been just another 6502 computer designer.
Elon is like jobs a visionary. Both put the pieces together, created the essence behind their products. You can hate Elon, have it blind you to his business acumen, but that’s true. Other than that, Elon is no genius, no intellectual and has no emotional IQ. Being good in one area doesn’t make you a genius in all areas
LOL! another MORON spoken! Elon knows more about 'physics' , has very serious 'engineering/manufacturing' experience while he was building TESLA, has many years of 'design , manufacturing and engineering' experience at SpaceX ... than some 'retired electrical engineer' who likely cannot tell the difference between the vacuum tube and the PNP junction' ... LOL !
Human life has become a disease. There are too many of us producing far too much waste, including excrement. Mother Nature will rectify the situation. Maybe within a few years. Who knows ?
It is amazing to me that so many people (the majority?) don't use the internet to see what dedicated professionals (the only experts) say about a particular topic, but instead, use it to mouth, at best, ignorant opinions, and magnify others misinformation. "Don't believe the experts, believe me (without a degree or experience in the field at hand)".
The fact that elon thinks he can summarize "the issue with LA" in one condescending sentence, as if countless professionals haven't dedicated their lives to tackle it...the money has completely gone to his head
@@CuriousVelociiraptorwell I guess over the period of Earth's development climate has changed at different rates, now relatively quickly. but we are experiencing in various points in the Earth extremely rapid change, tho we can't really say that for sure without having say 10 or maybe even 100 years of data - but by then it would certainly be too late
When I was a teenager, I would say things like that because I would read it on the internet and profess to be an expert. Many years later now, I realize just how complicated the world is and that there are many more factors involved. I outgrew it, Apartheid Clyde did not...
Elon Musk thinks Texas should have twice the wildfires of California, but he wants to put people on Mars? The guy doesn’t understand how ecosystems work. Scary.
Good luck Elon, no man has reach to set a foot on Mars and no planet close by has the conditions of Earth for life. It will take hundredths of years for man to set foot on another planet. Man should focus on making Earth a better habitat for humans, we have so much land.
As someone who lives in Northern California, and have dealt with all the big ones the past few years, Tubbs being the worst, I can say there is some truth with the lack of forest management. But specifically with these LA fires, no amount of forest management would have stopped them, the winds were carrying embers 1-3 miles away, fire breaks can't stop that.
Aussie here🇦🇺, we know fires of this magnitude. The firefighters are heroes, and it is impossible to predict and allow for catastrophes like this. Climate changes, whether or not one ascribes it to a greater cycle. Now is the time to learn more about appropriate revegetation and housing when LA rebuilds. There is ample information available with proven successes. Aim for the best instead of the cheapest solution. Blaming others is petty, counter-productive, anti-community, ugly, and provocatively divisive.
A rapidly changing nature is unpredictable and definitely cannot be controlled. In Germany we definitely don't have fires like this, the ones we have look like a nice BBQ fire.
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@@christinac3929 Wow, so helpful. Hey guys, this schmuck from Australia thinks it's petty to call names, that it's counterproductive... That's hilarious. The idiots in the US just voted in to power the biggest name caller and petty fuck the worlds ever seen. Thanks for the advice, now mind your own business. We have enough shit to deal with.
It's not just grass and trees that burn. Every house is a huge stockpile of flammable material. The wood, the plastic, the contents. When one goes up in flames it feeds more fuel into the fire.
For some reason the trees didn't burn next to many homes. Not the case in some areas. Water content maybe? The cypress trees were imported from Australia and are very flammable. That was a huge blunder.
JUST LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, DONNIE BOY TRUMP SAYING THAT MUSK IS A "SUPER GENIUS", ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS A "GENIUS" !!! THAT'S LIKE A WORM CALLING A MOLE SMARTER THAN HIM. BECAUSE A MOLE IS SMART ENOUGH TO FOOL THE WORM, AND ALWAYS GETS IT'S DINNER
I love how these armchair firefighters are suddenly experts on land- and water-management, and firefighting. They need to STFU, starting with Leon and Donald Judas Trump.
What facts and logic?! Elon Musk is mostly right about this!! Look at what happened there and stop being chauvinistic!! blame those failed incompetent leaders.
No not at all Elon and Vick is just citizens with finance not elected leaders they are hiding behind trump he is the bate on a string on platform lying distraction misinformation fake news trump is getting old each day he knows nothing about nothing not even concept tariffs trying to get Elon to double his empire base and that’s not working out to well if they have to threaten buy and beg people to give up their business they have already failed they r going to fake it to they make it sounds like it
Well thats not true, but yes its one of his tenets. Isn't this also why he attempts to go to Mars. He did write that the climate change was not at fault not that it didn't exist. As I .. sane wash? His statements.
We have 33 million acres of forest land in California. 19 million are federal land, national parks, USDA and Department of Defense. 13 million are privately held, by corporations and individuals. Our state controls 800000 acres. Palisades and Altadena aren’t in forests. Palisades is coastal, Altadena is at the base of Mount Wilson.
Fire breaks with 100 mph winds?...lmao! 8 months with no rain and the Santa Ana (Devil Winds) blowing downhill causing it to spread to into the cities was unique and as a Pasadena resident, I've never seen the wind cause this type of destruction with trees and power lines down (it originated at a main power line in the hills the wind took down). They had to shut off the power to prevent more electrical fires and chances of electrocution. Thankfully the water pumps had emergency backups generators so it kept flowing, not that it mattered with the winds. The Palisades fire was residential and had nothing to do with forests.
As a native Texan I can vouch that Texas does NOT maintain their forests any differently than other states. The forests in the eastern part of the state receive frequent rains and exist in a jungle type environment with the humidity and many times the swampy ground. The "forests" in the central and western part of the state are frequently arid and resemble desert conditions which comprise scrub brush that is usually not compact.
Should be noted the pine cones from the trees in bc (canadas west coast) dont open up or seed until they've been exposed to extreme heat/fire. The west coast is so prone to forest fires going back far enough that the trees have evolved to this issue. Not saying climate change isn't real, just that the west coast rocky mountains can have an incredibly dry and hot enviroment
Yes, the area has always been prone to wildfires . Climate change is simply in most cases making all extremes even more extreme. But that's exactly why Elon' s comment doesn't make any sense. Simply "having more trees" isn' t gonna make any place more prone to wildfires if that' s the only factor. Plus noone has ever said, that climate change affects all places equally. So, I' m not even sure what was his point. I have no way to know, but it seems to me that the stuff he posts aren' t even his honest oppinions because he can' t be that dumbe. It seems to me that he just wants to spark more chaos/ controversy in the society.
@martinazajackova6170 he could be that dumb rich kid daddy paid his education funded his x (the crypto buisness he started) paid for him buying into pay pal and likely helped him buy tesla then with governemnt funding and money from two prominent Russian backers he bought twiter and renamed it x. Guys not a genius like he'd like us all to believe just a rich buisness man same as trump. He believes now that he owns x and he controls the moderators he can manufacture the truth as opposed to people criticizing him and its true atleast on his platform. But he's lossing alot of Twitter users that recognize what he's doing too. Guy wasn't ever about making the world a better place but rather making a name for himself regardless of the reason good or bad.
Enron Musk hasn't discovered anything. His employees have slightly optimized certain things, that's all. In just a few years, Chinese manufacturers have surpassed Tesla in every way.
@@punkagrrlzero and he knows that. tesla will turn out to be a pump and dump for his space-faring/asteroid mining plans. sponsored by the tax payer, at that.
Texas had the biggest wild fire in its history last year. More than one million acres burned. You probably never heard about it because it's all ranch land. No one lives there. Wild fires have increased dramatically in TX due to climate change. Luckily they have not burbed aby major population center. Yet.
I remember that here in California. We sent help if I recall lots of equipment. It’s good to know that Republicans and Democrat governors will still talk to each other, but I wonder how long that will last? This country is screwed if we ever get to that point and we’re not even trying to void it it seems.
California has a fire dependent eco system. Much of the vegetation requires occasional fire to regenerate. And then there is topography. Canyons magnifies the wind
His moronic outbursts are an embarrassment to anyone with half a wit. He should be leaping in to assist those affected by the wildfires. One day's interest on his wealth would make a huge difference. But no. More division, more verbal vomit, more idiocy. 😡
Texas resident weighing in, and a geography geek besides. Texas forests get a lot more rainfall than California ones (its east half is average-to-quite humid, contrary to popular desert myths). Texas, unlike CA, does not have strong dry and wet seasons. The *more or less even* distribution of rainfall mitigates against fires here. Also, barring the "trans-Pecos" area, Texas does not have mountains that act to intensify and dry the winds moving downslope on the leeward side. That also prevents deprivation of air moisture, the very factors behind what makes the Santa Ana winds so hot and dry. All this means is that Texas - at least its eastern half - is a lot more like eastern forests than West Coast ones. Elon is safely ignorable in matters of substantive fact.
Not a ton of big mountain ranges in TX, I think El Paso has a few peaks, right? Fighting a fire on a mountain sucks compared to 'flat' TX land, I'd think.
In texas in 2024 weve had thousands of wildfires that burned millions of acres. West Texas doesnt have the population density of Southern California but climate change hits us too
I used to be in awe of Musk. Not so much now, as i think he has lost the plot. So much so that I guess i don't put too much relevance in what he has to say these days.
For his business acumen? Or his taking credit for literal thousands of people and movement that made the tech possible. I can't abide credit stealers sorry. He might have sone claim to have raised the profile for EVs, but we literally has grass roots and activists, scientists, researchers , engineers and even country's working for decades to be in the position that it was possible at all and the ideas and visions comes from them not Elon Musk. Being in the loop of alt energy tech. Working with people and reading from the vast effort to bring it forth. Makes me livid when one person STEALS, that credit, mostly because of his money. Those of us that were aware before Elon musk became known, knows how wrong that is! Elon Musks public profile and perception, buries all the other work. Who made space cool, NASA and enthusiast and other space programs, why do we have an almost monopoly that is financed via tax money's. Let's not even talk about how the inventors, visionaries and those doing the hard work oh and those that also founded and envisioned this, was not Elon Musk, those busy with thinking and innovating was pushed out by the money man.
When he did ever say anything of relevance?? He's a narcissist with a fantasy defence...his most impressive ideas for humanity never materialized whatsoever, more often they proved to be silly. He's not even as 'relevent' as jordan peterson and that is saying a heck of a lot!! :)
Unfortunately he is still waiting for something to fly high enough. Also so far 150g of payload, while Elon and some luggage needs 1000times more capacity.
The federal government owns about 58% of California's forestlands The state owns about 3% of California's forestlands The remaining 40% of California's forestlands are privately owned
The leaves are meant to fall, provide mulching and fertilizer for the soil, provide a habitat for millions of little critters that pollinate plants, prevent water run-off... I am very concerned about the standard of education in the US.
Someone needs to show Elon Musk a map of federal lands in both California and Texas. All those forests in Texas are either locally owned or privately owned. Meanwhile, over 1/3 of California is owned by the US government. The close proximity between homes and forests are because nearly 1/2 of the state is either mountain, farmland and desert.
Elon is not a 'real American' like other immigrants that earned it and actually care about the US and its future. Elon has FU money, and he has two other passports he can grift off of.
Except this was actually to be blamed on Texas' gross missmanagement of having their electric gris entirely private and separate from the rest of the country.
Maybe the fact that a lot of the forest in Texas gets over 50 inches of annual rainfall, while most of the forest in California gets less than 15 inches of rainfall. 3x more rain for Texas forests does not mean 3x fewer fires. it's more like 30x fewer fires. Or 100x fewer fires. Texas forests receive enough rain to not be "dry" and therefore are very hard to set on fire. California forests do not receive enough rain and are therefore "dry" and very easy to set on fire.
Most of the fires that burned most fiercely are in canyons and surrounded by steep cliffs. These are almost impossible to clear of brush and undergrowth, or to defend from fire. The Washington Post did a full report on the reasons why California burned. Or, more to the point, why those specific areas caught fire.
@@wesleywashington1251you comment doesn't make sense to me. With 60-100 mph winds, embers can travel miles and set other areas on fire regardless if it housing or forest.
Did not Canada have a horrendous fire not to long ago. I live near Detroit and we actually had the smoke from that fire. You could see it, smell it & taste it. Not blaming Canada.
Interesting how there’s so much blaming game with wild fires, as it happens, but it’s never a good time to talk about guns before, during, and after mass shootings.
Why? While Texas does have more forested land than California, the disparity in wildfire frequency and severity arises from several key differences in climate, vegetation, and management practices: 1. Climate and Weather Patterns • California: The state has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and periodic Santa Ana winds that rapidly spread fires. Prolonged droughts and high temperatures further exacerbate the risk of wildfires. • Texas: While Texas is prone to drought, much of its forested land is in the wetter eastern region of the state, which receives more rainfall and experiences higher humidity, reducing fire risk. Wildfire-prone areas in Texas tend to be more in the drier central and western regions, which lack the dense forest cover found in California. 2. Vegetation Types • California: Forests in California, particularly in the Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges, are dense and include many fire-prone species such as pine and chaparral, which contain oils and resins that ignite easily. • Texas: Forests in Texas, especially in the eastern Piney Woods, consist of species like loblolly pine, which are less fire-prone, and the vegetation tends to be less dense overall. Moreover, there is less accumulation of dry, combustible underbrush in some areas compared to California. 3. Topography • California: Its mountainous terrain creates wind funnels and steep slopes that accelerate fire spread. Fires can move uphill rapidly, gaining speed and intensity. • Texas: The terrain in Texas is generally flatter, particularly in the eastern forested regions, which makes fires easier to contain and less likely to spread quickly. 4. Seasonality and Human Factors • California: The state experiences longer and more intense fire seasons due to climate change. Human activity, such as power line failures, campfires, and urban-wildland interface development, further increases the likelihood of wildfires. • Texas: While Texas does experience wildfires, they tend to be smaller and less frequent in the eastern forests due to shorter dry seasons and more regular rainfall. The human population density near forested areas in Texas is generally lower than in many of California’s fire-prone regions. In summary, the combination of a wetter climate, less fire-prone vegetation, flatter terrain explains why it experiences fewer and less severe wildfires compared to California, despite having more forested land overall.
Well said Would like to say just because you are a billionaire does not make you smart. Elon musk , I have never seen someone so insecure about intelligence than Elon musk
California is near the ocean just like the states recently hit by hurricanes. So the hurricane damage is a result of mismanagement on a state, county and city level
@@fogcat5 I don't know about you but I use Elon musk's Starlink every day. When Starlink came out it was a complete game changer to my life. Elon Musk is definitely smarter than you lol
@@vladgeorgiyev731no, he hired people to engineer that shit. He is an idealistic, not an intellect. He is for him and not the human race. He is going to mars to govern us minions from his deathstar
And the reason it doesn't is because (a) it lacks moutains, barring the far western part in the Big Bend area and El Paso, and (b) it doesn't have wet and dry seasons like CA does. Also, some tree species are more fire-prone than others.
He’s not intelligent 😂 please stop giving him so much credit. He’s average at best. He hasn’t built or invented anything, he just slaps his name on things that already exist. He hasn’t become wealthy on his own, his DADDY is super wealthy 😂
David, many things are different between Texas and California in regards to fire risk-- geographically, California is much more diverse and therefore complicated. In addition, population concentration near steeply rolling hills and canyons and forests, etc. multiplies risks and complicates risk-mitigation.
Someone very knowledgeable wrote in to Adam's show . On the " raking issue " the comment was very intelligent and concise as to why that is the last thing we need to do. I was a horticulture student so a lot of his points touched on familar material. But he spoke in a matter that the average laymen could easily understand . Basically having to do with how important the layer of forest material ( pine needles etc. ) is to the health of the forest. An unmitigated disaster to " rake it " soil is a living entity ( or it should be ) and everything including the life and health of the trees rely on it. Its sad that people that are not knowlegeable constantly speaking on terrain and a place they are not familar with. And playing the blame game when people have lost their lives, their beloved pets and their homes 😢😞💔
Doesn't California have Eucalypt trees as well, which have volatile oils in their leaves and are known to be very prone to spontaneous combustion? We have a whole country full of gum trees in Australia which are one of the many reasons we have loads of bushfires.
I heard talk of that. It was said that there were different species of eucalyptus trees that are not native to California introduced over the last couple of decades. 🇨🇦 here so I don’t know much about eucalyptus.
In 2023, California reported 7,364 while Texas reported 7,102 wildfires. California’s landscape is dominated by chaparral, grasslands, and coniferous forests, which are highly flammable. Texas forests often have more fire-resistant hardwoods and pine species, which burn less readily. California’s mountainous terrain allows fires to spread rapidly uphill, driven by wind. Texas has more flatlands, which generally slow the spread of fires. Elon has money but no cents.
I live in CO and most of our fires are from people being irresponsible with fire. In my hometown, we had a devastating wildfire a few years back because an asshole gun owner. He was at a shooting range using illegal ammo that exploded when it hit its target. The target ignited and we lost hundreds of acres, millions of dollars in structures, and how many animals lost their homes and were killed. They were only fined a few thousand dollars in court. In this case, we can blame a gun owner. I wonder how the Republicans would twist the blame in that scenario.
It is the winds that reverse and come off the desert unlike the usual onshore winds that have humidity. these use to be fall only and over by Thanksgiving and rain came. now they are still coming in January and we have had no rain. I am old and born here my family came in the 19th century so I am well aware of how things get worse every year the last 15 or so. Before a news caster renamed them Santa Ana Winds they were called Santa winds or devil winds. no humidity and they spread the fire so fast and dry things out making fighting near imposable. It is different in Texas. and different than 20 years ago. They come later and the droughts are moor sever. wind and dry are a bad combination.
Can't believe some people actually think this guy is smart. Wealth is not an indicator of how smart someone is. He was born into wealth and made some lucky investments. He doesn't do any research himself, he doesn't know much about anything, he just smokes weed all day and posts rubbish on twitter while other people at his companies do the actual work.
Weh-Weh-Weh-Well Hurricanes start as storms in West Africa! Then move over the ocean to become hurricanes. West Africa has Black people living there. Never mind that I can't explain how black skin is supposed to make the West African Disturbance Line (tech term for them) worse! They start in an area with Black people, and so the skin color *just has to* make the storms worse /s
I wrote a book! "The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America." It's available on March 25th, 2025. Pre-order it here: davidpakman.com/echo
I’ll purchase one. Please refrain from the fake word “preorder”. It’s not possible to order before you order. It’s not possible to preheat an oven or preorder a car.
I’ll purchase one. Please refrain from the fake word “preorder”. It’s not possible to order before you order. It’s not possible to preheat an oven or preorder a car.
Thank you, hero! - Jesus
@@timmackinnon5547 You can't preheat a microwave, either, though I would love to see Musk try!
Anyway 'preorder' is not a fake word. You should have checked ChatGPT befoe making that blunder.
After all chatgpi is much better than Wikipedia, and it explains: The word "preorder" means to place an order for a product before it is available for purchase or before it is officially released.
You know, climate change contributes, but it's also a fact that California does not manage dead forests and underbrush well at all, and L.A did cut fire fighting budgets. Also the Santa Ana winds have always been a huge thing here. It's a perfect storm of a lot of issues. There is nuance to these things.
Elon is the definition of "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"
He was in a position where everyone used to think he was smart, then he got Twitter...
When he was silent everybody thought he was a genius. Not any more.
@@thebananamonkisn't Twitter the #1 app to download?
Yeah you're clearly much smarter than him@@petergibson2318
"Better to remain silent and be thought a genius, than to speak and shatter the myth"
Elon is also forgetting that Texas had the biggest wild fires in modern history in February 2024 that burnt over a million acres
Yep. The only difference is in Texas millionaires don't have their luxury homes built in the fire hazard areas, so nobody (read "no journalist") cared.
I had forgotten that.
the population density is much lower as well.
Texas resident weighing in. A quibble. That was not a forest fire but a grassland fire in a remote rural area. Granted it did destroy a small town in the "Panhandle", but it was not forest. That still doesn't detract from your central point.
@@filrabat1965 Well why didn't someone mow that 1,000,000 acres then??
Elon should now give his insight into why Texas seems to be the only power grid in America that can never stay on during a snowstorm…
Yessss, THIS!!!!
As someone who lives in Minnesota, hell yeah!
Lesbian electrons.
@@Yeoldelole yah and not much better out here in Colorado winter is a bitch
@@Sharp931You KNOW that’s the name of someone’s next punk band. 😂 Lesbian Electrons. That’s so awesome.
Elon Musk should explain why Texas has the only electricity grid in the US that never works during snowstorms.
He’s a billionaire and you’re not for a reason. 🧠
@@teeminator30 Correct. We can't all inherit wealth and connections.
@@teeminator30 LOL definitely not his brains
@Nina_Fio When 1 million Chinese built Tesla EVs, plug in to recharge, you get electricity supply problems.
@@RichTex-e6d This has been happening since the deregulation of the state's electric grid. It has nothing to do with EVs. Because of deregulation, you have an infinite number of "electric companies," but none of these companies maintain the infrastructure. Every time the grid goes down, more than 13 states have to send in their professionals to get it back up.
I love how the guy who speaks on a podium that says "America First" is also the same guy who's replacing American workers with foreign Visa holders. It's like a sign from the Heavens.
Right 👍▶️
Let’s remember the mismanagement when Florida gets hit with hurricanes and floods.
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First of all, why are they all living so close to the water? 🤷🏻♂️🤣🫰🏼
@@nelsonmira4884 that is dumb. You cannot prevent a hurricane, but you can prevent forest fires.
Let's also remember the mismanagement in the 2021, when Texas failed to address their power grid issues, blamed the outages on renewable energy while nearly 300 people died, and Turd Cruz absconded to Cancun because he couldn't deal with the cold.
@@TW-SB You can prevent some forest fires. The recent CA wildfires, fueled by unprecedented windstorms were also probably preventable if policymakers took anthropogenic climate change seriously.
Elon Musk is so dense light bends around him.
OH MY GOODNESS THAT IS RICH!!!!!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
😂😂😂
🤣😂😆😅 what an idiot with an incredibly inflated sense of self importance. 🤡
Elon is like a child with a good imagination. That's why instead of considering the human condition, he plays with rockets.
😂😂😂
Science is a tough one for most Republicans.
So is geography beyond the mere "point to Colorado on a map" and "What's the capital of Poland?" questions.
I learned what makes So. Cal. so dry in - granted an upper division level undergrad geography class.
Even so, the average degreed person should know that in every topic, there's always more than meets the eye.
It's one think for people without four year degrees not to notice, But otherwise? smh
My Dad, with a HS ed, never read Socrates, but always said "to know that you don't know, is the first step toward knowledge."
Religion taught them to ignore it.
Also for "progressives", both cults are retarded
That's why they want it banned in schools
I'm a Penn alum. Can't tell you how embarrassing this guy is.
Right 👍 He should be send back to South Africa...
With Musk having roots in SA and Zambia, he should know there’s been historic drought here in Zambia, so much so that the hydropower on which Zambia relies, is operating under 10% capacity from the Kariba Dam which is virtually a dry bed because of lack of rains over the last 20 months. Maize crops are devastated. And a major city like Lusaka, 3.5 million people, has 2-3 hours of power per day to conserve electricity. This is all because of climate change. I thought Elon was a genius. An average Zambian knows more than he does about the state of the world.
Absolutely. When I visited SA a few years ago, anyone I spoke to about him didn’t like him. All that money and he doesn’t help communities in his own country, baffling when he thinks he’s gonna help USA
He thinks he is too
He could care less about his homeland. He’s self righteous and self serving.
@@suesue8974 He couldn't care less.
This is a dystopian nightmare
4yrs
Will be cruel and inhumane
If things go to their plan, it won't just be 4 years (and no, I'm not talking about another 4 years of a Trump presidency)
I feel exactly the same and have since Trump first emerged with his lies, selling everything under the sun, cheating people and getting away with everything without consequence. It is driving me mad
It won’t go their way
We are ending their dystopian nightmare that is the Biden administration.
and likely fatal to the long term viability of this country's constitutional republic.
If Ego Musk wanted to really help, he could donate some of his money instead of just shooting off his mouth.
YES INDEED 👍
Or make some school for the less wealthy, or an hispital, or clean the sea, or, or.... so many things to do, but ya, doesnt make money, so who care huh, these people are soooooo hypocrite.
I was agnostic about these billionaires until they started getting obnoxious now I think we need a new tax scheme to keep them from turning into trillionaires. If you think they’re bad now just wait.
Exactly. All he does is buy the presidency for trump and is trying to buy the overthrowing of governments in other countries. He has so much money that he thinks he can do anything. Then do something charitable with it. Help people that are suffering you b*****d.
Really depends on who he is trying to help.
No firebreak can stop embers being blown around with cyclonic winds
And how would they put fire break in the backyard
Especially when the embers are as big as a human head and are flying up and down the hills at 70-to 100 mph.....get real and stop the blame game
Exactly.
You're right, dont do anythjng. Its climate changes fault 🤷♂️
Remember when Elon Musk believed in climate change? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Then his ex fucked a trans and he realized he got more engagement leaning into the right wing extremism.
I remember, all those hours working on the mars mission he forgot he once believed
I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem -- greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My husband and I will be retiring in the next two years in another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific lnvestment account with Tracy Britt Cool Consulting my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.
< I know this FA you just mentioned. Tracy Britt Cool is a portfolio manager and investment advisor. She gained recognition as an employee of Berkshire Hattaway; a renowned investor she is. Ms Tracy has demonstrated expertise in investment strategies and has been involved in managing portfolios and providing guidance to clients.
The debt issue is less a spending issue than an income issue. Just think how much the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts + the SS taxes cap have shortened the US finances. This is more than the current debt. Working people did not profit from these tax loopholes, only passive income earners did.
I went from no money to lnvest with to busting my A** off on Uber eats for six months to raise about $30k to start investing with Tracy Britt Cool. I am at $128k right now and LOVING that you have to bring this up here
Please how can I liase with this FA? I am seeking for a very effective investment approach for my savings which gradually depreciates in value due to inflation
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with "Tracy Britt Cool Consulting" for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She's quite known in her field, look--her up.
WAIT WAIT WAIT!! I'm a retired electronic engineer, Leon doesn't know shit about technology. He never worked as an engineer, never designed anything. He is a more toxic version of Steve Jobs. He got rich off the work of people like Steve Wozniak
Jobs at least did work with Wozniak, and knew which designs to promote and which to bin - mostly.
Yes Jobs was a horrible man whose beliefs eventually led to his death, but he did make a success of Apple. Wozniak on his own would have been just another 6502 computer designer.
Elon's degree is in economics. Elon is a good con artist salesman and not a scientist.
@@JamesLee-yw8hk Did Mushy even finish college?
Elon is like jobs a visionary. Both put the pieces together, created the essence behind their products. You can hate Elon, have it blind you to his business acumen, but that’s true. Other than that, Elon is no genius, no intellectual and has no emotional IQ. Being good in one area doesn’t make you a genius in all areas
LOL! another MORON spoken!
Elon knows more about 'physics' , has very serious 'engineering/manufacturing' experience while he was building TESLA, has many years of 'design , manufacturing and engineering' experience at SpaceX ... than some 'retired electrical engineer' who likely cannot tell the difference between the vacuum tube and the PNP junction' ... LOL !
The world is going to die with these people in charge.
That is trump’s plan!
Yes its the end of the West for sure.
@woodliceworm4565 global warming. I'm prepared but I need a larger population to nourish knowledge for myself and family. This is unnecessary and bad.
Human life has become a disease. There are too many of us producing far too much waste, including excrement.
Mother Nature will rectify the situation. Maybe within a few years. Who knows ?
It is dying under Biden this is still under Biden so
Mainly Musk farts, smells it, then tries to blame it on someone else. This is how we govern now.
is that why his lip never moves? 😂
since musk has a odor, he has perfect partner 🐍 trump 🐍 34x's GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY 😊
God bless America 🇺🇸 ❤
Trump. Musk. Two people named after stinkers.
underrated comment
@burchifiedHis lips never moves because he talks with his a$$hole.
It is amazing to me that so many people (the majority?) don't use the internet to see what dedicated professionals (the only experts) say about a particular topic, but instead, use it to mouth, at best, ignorant opinions, and magnify others misinformation. "Don't believe the experts, believe me (without a degree or experience in the field at hand)".
This is how the internet has improved our lives
Because you need to be educated, smart and patient to read a scientific paper about stuff.
They have so much to say, yet they do NOTHING to stop the problem.
The fact that elon thinks he can summarize "the issue with LA" in one condescending sentence, as if countless professionals haven't dedicated their lives to tackle it...the money has completely gone to his head
@@kuruptzZz but dont forget who is listening to this guy, people that take easy answer, coz its hard for them to think more deeply.
It's mostly ego and ketamine at this point.
There was room up there
It seems that Elon knows just about as much about wildfires as he knows about constructing an EV truck.
The muskrats still think he is smart,
Dont be stupid, he has lived in these both places he knows better than You!
@@awwpaw4797 Found a Stan!
Or anything else
@ There is no subject in which musk knows more than us,
He is just a conman.
If climate change is unreal, why buy a Tesla LOL
Great point 😂
Logic is not a thing in MAGA world.
Musk didn't say climate change is unreal. He literally said in the tweet: "Climate change is happening, but slowly."
@@CuriousVelociiraptorwell I guess over the period of Earth's development climate has changed at different rates, now relatively quickly. but we are experiencing in various points in the Earth extremely rapid change, tho we can't really say that for sure without having say 10 or maybe even 100 years of data - but by then it would certainly be too late
Super great statement
When I was a teenager, I would say things like that because I would read it on the internet and profess to be an expert. Many years later now, I realize just how complicated the world is and that there are many more factors involved. I outgrew it, Apartheid Clyde did not...
Watch Adrian Ditmann play Poe2. Guarantee it's the most cringe thing youll see all month.
The world’s richest man starts an argument on X rather than use his influence and power to assist California in their time of need.
Think of the good he could do with his billions if he wasn’t such a jerk
Elon Musk thinks Texas should have twice the wildfires of California, but he wants to put people on Mars? The guy doesn’t understand how ecosystems work.
Scary.
Good luck Elon, no man has reach to set a foot on Mars and no planet close by has the conditions of Earth for life. It will take hundredths of years for man to set foot on another planet. Man should focus on making Earth a better habitat for humans, we have so much land.
we will never go to mars -- he would want to be king of mars and pout when nobody lets him
@ let him be king of Mars. Send 100 people with him.
Not liking his overreaching influence, but SpaceX will get to Mars in 5 years.
@ and do what? We are already on Mars. Do you mean put people on Mars?
As someone who lives in Northern California, and have dealt with all the big ones the past few years, Tubbs being the worst, I can say there is some truth with the lack of forest management. But specifically with these LA fires, no amount of forest management would have stopped them, the winds were carrying embers 1-3 miles away, fire breaks can't stop that.
The city doesn’t have forests they’ve cut them down. Musk and chump are morons
Aussie here🇦🇺, we know fires of this magnitude. The firefighters are heroes, and it is impossible to predict and allow for catastrophes like this. Climate changes, whether or not one ascribes it to a greater cycle. Now is the time to learn more about appropriate revegetation and housing when LA rebuilds. There is ample information available with proven successes. Aim for the best instead of the cheapest solution. Blaming others is petty, counter-productive, anti-community, ugly, and provocatively divisive.
...and the fires were/are in residential areas NOT in a 'forest'.
A rapidly changing nature is unpredictable and definitely cannot be controlled. In Germany we definitely don't have fires like this, the ones we have look like a nice BBQ fire.
@@christinac3929 Wow, so helpful. Hey guys, this schmuck from Australia thinks it's petty to call names, that it's counterproductive... That's hilarious. The idiots in the US just voted in to power the biggest name caller and petty fuck the worlds ever seen. Thanks for the advice, now mind your own business. We have enough shit to deal with.
It's not just grass and trees that burn. Every house is a huge stockpile of flammable material. The wood, the plastic, the contents. When one goes up in flames it feeds more fuel into the fire.
Same with cars across car-heavy LA. They’re like mini bombs.
And most Californian homes are built with light weight materials due to earthquake risk. Most of these lightweight materials are flammable.
For some reason the trees didn't burn next to many homes. Not the case in some areas. Water content maybe? The cypress trees were imported from Australia and are very flammable. That was a huge blunder.
Well send our Canadian lumber to help rebuild. Oh wait? Conold says America doesn't need our goods?
@@4-Methylaminor3xFDJT
JUST LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, DONNIE BOY TRUMP SAYING THAT MUSK IS A "SUPER GENIUS", ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS A "GENIUS" !!! THAT'S LIKE A WORM CALLING A MOLE SMARTER THAN HIM. BECAUSE A MOLE IS SMART ENOUGH TO FOOL THE WORM, AND ALWAYS GETS IT'S DINNER
To dump, a fly is a "super genius" smh😊
I love how these armchair firefighters are suddenly experts on land- and water-management, and firefighting. They need to STFU, starting with Leon and Donald Judas Trump.
Now David, you are using facts and logic, that’s not going to persuade President Elon or First Lady Donald.
😂
What facts and logic?!
Elon Musk is mostly right about this!! Look at what happened there and stop being chauvinistic!! blame those failed incompetent leaders.
Hey, at least MAGA is finally woke enough to have two daddies.
If Kamala won it would been President Cuban. Democrats had no issues with Mark Cuban.
@@desdenova1Daddy and mommy.😂😂😂
Imo Elon is the living example of “born on third thinks he hit a triple”. Now he thinks he invented baseball 🙃
The need for electric vehicles becomes zero if climate change isn’t real. Has Elon even stopped to think for a moment?
No not at all Elon and Vick is just citizens with finance not elected leaders they are hiding behind trump he is the bate on a string on platform lying distraction misinformation fake news trump is getting old each day he knows nothing about nothing not even concept tariffs trying to get Elon to double his empire base and that’s not working out to well if they have to threaten buy and beg people to give up their business they have already failed they r going to fake it to they make it sounds like it
He's the dumbest genius I've ever heard of.
Respect was high for him when he first came out. Quickly dropped year by year.
Well thats not true, but yes its one of his tenets.
Isn't this also why he attempts to go to Mars.
He did write that the climate change was not at fault not that it didn't exist.
As I .. sane wash?
His statements.
I think he's drunk on power and is losing self-control daily.
We have 33 million acres of forest land in California. 19 million are federal land, national parks, USDA and Department of Defense. 13 million are privately held, by corporations and individuals. Our state controls 800000 acres. Palisades and Altadena aren’t in forests. Palisades is coastal, Altadena is at the base of Mount Wilson.
Guess it proves being rich doesn't necessarily mean smart
Fire breaks with 100 mph winds?...lmao! 8 months with no rain and the Santa Ana (Devil Winds) blowing downhill causing it to spread to into the cities was unique and as a Pasadena resident, I've never seen the wind cause this type of destruction with trees and power lines down (it originated at a main power line in the hills the wind took down). They had to shut off the power to prevent more electrical fires and chances of electrocution. Thankfully the water pumps had emergency backups generators so it kept flowing, not that it mattered with the winds. The Palisades fire was residential and had nothing to do with forests.
When did Musk ever let sense get in his way?
Not half as interesting as an immature name for the governor.
Is that why he refuses to donate a single penny to help our state? Because politics? God, he's a wet turd.
Because he's scared of the Trans.
He's worse, he is that thing when turd is vomited up.
One of the reasons he recently left california for texas because texas puts a cap on child support at 3k/mo while california does not.
Did you think he would ever do anything out of charity? Did the smoke blur your mind?^^
his own trans kid ain’t a fan of ‘ the elon’Putz @@SageWon-1aussie
it's the ketamine
Prob a few others too
Exactly!
😆
@@lizsinger6865 It's the tiny, smooth brain of his.
Put a gram of fentanil in is ketamine, problem solve!!
As a native Texan I can vouch that Texas does NOT maintain their forests any differently than other states. The forests in the eastern part of the state receive frequent rains and exist in a jungle type environment with the humidity and many times the swampy ground. The "forests" in the central and western part of the state are frequently arid and resemble desert conditions which comprise scrub brush that is usually not compact.
Should be noted the pine cones from the trees in bc (canadas west coast) dont open up or seed until they've been exposed to extreme heat/fire. The west coast is so prone to forest fires going back far enough that the trees have evolved to this issue. Not saying climate change isn't real, just that the west coast rocky mountains can have an incredibly dry and hot enviroment
Yes, the area has always been prone to wildfires . Climate change is simply in most cases making all extremes even more extreme. But that's exactly why Elon' s comment doesn't make any sense. Simply "having more trees" isn' t gonna make any place more prone to wildfires if that' s the only factor. Plus noone has ever said, that climate change affects all places equally. So, I' m not even sure what was his point. I have no way to know, but it seems to me that the stuff he posts aren' t even his honest oppinions because he can' t be that dumbe. It seems to me that he just wants to spark more chaos/ controversy in the society.
@martinazajackova6170 he could be that dumb rich kid daddy paid his education funded his x (the crypto buisness he started) paid for him buying into pay pal and likely helped him buy tesla then with governemnt funding and money from two prominent Russian backers he bought twiter and renamed it x. Guys not a genius like he'd like us all to believe just a rich buisness man same as trump. He believes now that he owns x and he controls the moderators he can manufacture the truth as opposed to people criticizing him and its true atleast on his platform. But he's lossing alot of Twitter users that recognize what he's doing too. Guy wasn't ever about making the world a better place but rather making a name for himself regardless of the reason good or bad.
Australian aborigines used "cool burns" to mitigate bush fire.
Enron Musk hasn't discovered anything. His employees have slightly optimized certain things, that's all. In just a few years, Chinese manufacturers have surpassed Tesla in every way.
Like waaaaaaay surpassed.
@@punkagrrlzero and he knows that. tesla will turn out to be a pump and dump for his space-faring/asteroid mining plans. sponsored by the tax payer, at that.
@@punkagrrlzeroI watched a video on Chinese EV’s & other new developments & was impressed.
they will probably catch up to spacex as well.
@@ThatOpalGuy How do you know they haven't?
Texas had the biggest wild fire in its history last year. More than one million acres burned. You probably never heard about it because it's all ranch land. No one lives there.
Wild fires have increased dramatically in TX due to climate change. Luckily they have not burbed aby major population center. Yet.
Remember the 2011 fires in Texas - a big forest fire east of Austin and several west and central Texas grassland fires?
Who was to blame during the Texas power failures that killed 47 people. The one were Ted Cruz fled to Mexico
I remember that here in California. We sent help if I recall lots of equipment. It’s good to know that Republicans and Democrat governors will still talk to each other, but I wonder how long that will last? This country is screwed if we ever get to that point and we’re not even trying to void it it seems.
In 1938 38 million acres burned across the US
1910 3 million acres burned in the north west. 2nd biggest on record in the USA.
Preindustrial an average of 143 million acres burned a year.
How dare he say that. Pure evil.
California has a fire dependent eco system. Much of the vegetation requires occasional fire to regenerate. And then there is topography. Canyons magnifies the wind
The perfect partner for Trump. They both talk an incredible amount of bollocks.
OMG, David. When you told me what Elon said about TX, I spit out my coffee!
This is beyond disgraceful by Elon
errr ... Texas has about a billion times more tornadoes than California ... and no one is talking about that!
Outrageous. Why don't they invest in wind-management?
Must be the Dems causing those too. Republicans are so stupid
@@TheMAmeph😂😂 good one
His moronic outbursts are an embarrassment to anyone with half a wit. He should be leaping in to assist those affected by the wildfires. One day's interest on his wealth would make a huge difference. But no. More division, more verbal vomit, more idiocy. 😡
Thanks!
Texas resident weighing in, and a geography geek besides. Texas forests get a lot more rainfall than California ones (its east half is average-to-quite humid, contrary to popular desert myths). Texas, unlike CA, does not have strong dry and wet seasons. The *more or less even* distribution of rainfall mitigates against fires here. Also, barring the "trans-Pecos" area, Texas does not have mountains that act to intensify and dry the winds moving downslope on the leeward side. That also prevents deprivation of air moisture, the very factors behind what makes the Santa Ana winds so hot and dry. All this means is that Texas - at least its eastern half - is a lot more like eastern forests than West Coast ones. Elon is safely ignorable in matters of substantive fact.
The terrain is also easier for firefighters to move around and reach the fires. So it's easier for them to fight the fires.
Not a ton of big mountain ranges in TX, I think El Paso has a few peaks, right? Fighting a fire on a mountain sucks compared to 'flat' TX land, I'd think.
How many 100 mph winds does Texas have?
It does have them, but they're usually accompanied by torrential rains.
@@ericlipps9459 or tornados
When Abbott, Musk, and Cruz stand shoulder to shoulder in a row?
Tornado season
Depends if the orange felon has been eating beans, He is called "trump" after all! 🌬
When LA has blizzards I'll care what Elon thinks
He will blame Dems!
Musk does not think, He has no science knowledge.
WAIT!!! The LAFD has lesbians? That explains everything. And also, that’s a great plot.
They will NOT have to worry about wild Fires on Mars..
fires on mars seem to completely under control.....
Yes, please go elon and take bozo with you!
So they should go there NOW
Is it time for we the people to encourage their departure?
@@MrNice-gw5dt due to almost zero oxygen, Elon's a genius, LOL.
In texas in 2024 weve had thousands of wildfires that burned millions of acres. West Texas doesnt have the population density of Southern California but climate change hits us too
I used to be in awe of Musk. Not so much now, as i think he has lost the plot. So much so that I guess i don't put too much relevance in what he has to say these days.
For his business acumen?
Or his taking credit for literal thousands of people and movement that made the tech possible.
I can't abide credit stealers sorry.
He might have sone claim to have raised the profile for EVs, but we literally has grass roots and activists, scientists, researchers , engineers and even country's working for decades to be in the position that it was possible at all and the ideas and visions comes from them not Elon Musk.
Being in the loop of alt energy tech.
Working with people and reading from the vast effort to bring it forth. Makes me livid when one person STEALS, that credit, mostly because of his money.
Those of us that were aware before Elon musk became known, knows how wrong that is!
Elon Musks public profile and perception, buries all the other work.
Who made space cool, NASA and enthusiast and other space programs, why do we have an almost monopoly that is financed via tax money's.
Let's not even talk about how the inventors, visionaries and those doing the hard work oh and those that also founded and envisioned this, was not Elon Musk, those busy with thinking and innovating was pushed out by the money man.
When he did ever say anything of relevance?? He's a narcissist with a fantasy defence...his most impressive ideas for humanity never materialized whatsoever, more often they proved to be silly. He's not even as 'relevent' as jordan peterson and that is saying a heck of a lot!! :)
I used to kinda like him before his TDS (Trump Devotion Syndrome) kicked in.
Wait until Elon hears about the space lasers.
When he is leaving for Mars? Can’t wait!
Unfortunately he is still waiting for something to fly high enough. Also so far 150g of payload, while Elon and some luggage needs 1000times more capacity.
Elon should pay people to think for him like he pays people to boost his videogame characters.
He does.
Just not when he's talking.
The federal government owns about 58% of California's forestlands
The state owns about 3% of California's forestlands
The remaining 40% of California's forestlands are privately owned
I wonder where we're going to find thousands of people to rake our forests for next to nothing. Hmmm.
would could increase immigration south of the border to help mitigate this issue, LOL. Just spitballing.
The leaves are meant to fall, provide mulching and fertilizer for the soil, provide a habitat for millions of little critters that pollinate plants, prevent water run-off...
I am very concerned about the standard of education in the US.
@ Yes, of course. And my comment is purely lampoon. Our country has descended into idiocracy.
He speaks to us from his Bully pulpit of Billions. Who is he but nothing without his money?
He is showing you!
Texas famously has exactly the same geography and vegetation as LA County.
Elon Musk, ladies and gentlemen.
Someone needs to show Elon Musk a map of federal lands in both California and Texas. All those forests in Texas are either locally owned or privately owned. Meanwhile, over 1/3 of California is owned by the US government. The close proximity between homes and forests are because nearly 1/2 of the state is either mountain, farmland and desert.
Elon is not a 'real American' like other immigrants that earned it and actually care about the US and its future. Elon has FU money, and he has two other passports he can grift off of.
Elon is a "Bad Hombre" in trump's words.
Very well put, David. Everything you said, 100% agree. From 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 now dealing with convicted Orange-Man Trump 2.0😢
More forest = more forest fires?
Damn I never realized northern Sweden was a burning inferno...
Elon and others who claim to know everything oddly don't know when to keep silent. 😢😢😢 No compassion!
Musk's argument on X? It is pointless to talk about arguments when all he does on X is manipulation for self-interest.
Texas just had a nice snow storm and had power problems. Each to their own dilemma !
Except this was actually to be blamed on Texas' gross missmanagement of having their electric gris entirely private and separate from the rest of the country.
Maybe the fact that a lot of the forest in Texas gets over 50 inches of annual rainfall, while most of the forest in California gets less than 15 inches of rainfall.
3x more rain for Texas forests does not mean 3x fewer fires.
it's more like 30x fewer fires. Or 100x fewer fires.
Texas forests receive enough rain to not be "dry" and therefore are very hard to set on fire.
California forests do not receive enough rain and are therefore "dry" and very easy to set on fire.
TEXAS is super humid. CALIFORNIA is super dry. Any idiot knows this.
ahhh no wondr texans are always in a mad mood and psychopathic with rage..humidity does that to me too.
if he hadn't had such a rich daddy, he'd probably be working as a garbage picker in Johannesburg.
No, he’s equivalent to white people here in the United States. White males are effing lazy.
@AskthePoolman uh oh should I play the liberal playbook and call racism on your comment?
@@DevonWoodward-ot7ltHow is this comment racist in any way? You must be one of the idiots that thinks Elon is a genius, and Trump is a good man.
It seems you're speaking for yourself.
Most of the fires that burned most fiercely are in canyons and surrounded by steep cliffs. These are almost impossible to clear of brush and undergrowth, or to defend from fire. The Washington Post did a full report on the reasons why California burned. Or, more to the point, why those specific areas caught fire.
If that was true the fires wouldn't have spread so easily.
@@wesleywashington1251 The annual Santa Ana winds make spreading a fire super easy. You are as misinformed as Leon.
@@wesleywashington1251you comment doesn't make sense to me. With 60-100 mph winds, embers can travel miles and set other areas on fire regardless if it housing or forest.
@@wesleywashington1251 You clearly know nothing about the physics of fire.
XCRETIAN.. LOVE IT DAVID !!
Did not Canada have a horrendous fire not to long ago. I live near Detroit and we actually had the smoke from that fire. You could see it, smell it & taste it. Not blaming Canada.
Interesting how there’s so much blaming game with wild fires, as it happens, but it’s never a good time to talk about guns before, during, and after mass shootings.
Elonia hires smart people, that doesnt mean he’s smart
Why? While Texas does have more forested land than California, the disparity in wildfire frequency and severity arises from several key differences in climate, vegetation, and management practices:
1. Climate and Weather Patterns
• California: The state has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and periodic Santa Ana winds that rapidly spread fires. Prolonged droughts and high temperatures further exacerbate the risk of wildfires.
• Texas: While Texas is prone to drought, much of its forested land is in the wetter eastern region of the state, which receives more rainfall and experiences higher humidity, reducing fire risk. Wildfire-prone areas in Texas tend to be more in the drier central and western regions, which lack the dense forest cover found in California.
2. Vegetation Types
• California: Forests in California, particularly in the Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges, are dense and include many fire-prone species such as pine and chaparral, which contain oils and resins that ignite easily.
• Texas: Forests in Texas, especially in the eastern Piney Woods, consist of species like loblolly pine, which are less fire-prone, and the vegetation tends to be less dense overall. Moreover, there is less accumulation of dry, combustible underbrush in some areas compared to California.
3. Topography
• California: Its mountainous terrain creates wind funnels and steep slopes that accelerate fire spread. Fires can move uphill rapidly, gaining speed and intensity.
• Texas: The terrain in Texas is generally flatter, particularly in the eastern forested regions, which makes fires easier to contain and less likely to spread quickly.
4. Seasonality and Human Factors
• California: The state experiences longer and more intense fire seasons due to climate change. Human activity, such as power line failures, campfires, and urban-wildland interface development, further increases the likelihood of wildfires.
• Texas: While Texas does experience wildfires, they tend to be smaller and less frequent in the eastern forests due to shorter dry seasons and more regular rainfall. The human population density near forested areas in Texas is generally lower than in many of California’s fire-prone regions.
In summary, the combination of a wetter climate, less fire-prone vegetation, flatter terrain explains why it experiences fewer and less severe wildfires compared to California, despite having more forested land overall.
Thanks for the explanation 👍
Well said
Would like to say just because you are a billionaire does not make you smart.
Elon musk , I have never seen someone so insecure about intelligence than Elon musk
Please forward this to Elon and trump. Maybe they can understand a more elementary explanation 🤔
California is near the ocean just like the states recently hit by hurricanes. So the hurricane damage is a result of mismanagement on a state, county and city level
cultspeak
it's so hard to tell when people are making a joke - and which side they are joking for. people think elon is smart. sad.
@@fogcat5 I don't know about you but I use Elon musk's Starlink every day. When Starlink came out it was a complete game changer to my life. Elon Musk is definitely smarter than you lol
@@vladgeorgiyev731no, he hired people to engineer that shit. He is an idealistic, not an intellect. He is for him and not the human race. He is going to mars to govern us minions from his deathstar
Forget everything but: intense, sustained drought and continuous hot, dry, high speed wind.
That will burn down anything but rock.
From "first principles" to conspiracy peddler...
SAD.
Texas doesn't have the Santa Ana winds. 🙄
And the reason it doesn't is because (a) it lacks moutains, barring the far western part in the Big Bend area and El Paso, and (b) it doesn't have wet and dry seasons like CA does. Also, some tree species are more fire-prone than others.
although Tejas does have a bunch of blowhards in office. kpax, abbott, cruz. 😷
I've been through Texas and it's f-ing big but the forests aren't as dense as they are in California.
Stupidity and Intelligence often goes hand in hand. Elon is the very proof to that 😢
You are an imbecile.
Intelligence? I thought it was that he was born into money, so he's able to pay the actual intelligent people to work for him.
The slave labor immigrants who come in on a tech visa @@Poemi10304
@ he is a self-made man. Don’t fool yourself.
He’s not intelligent 😂 please stop giving him so much credit. He’s average at best. He hasn’t built or invented anything, he just slaps his name on things that already exist. He hasn’t become wealthy on his own, his DADDY is super wealthy 😂
David, many things are different between Texas and California in regards to fire risk-- geographically, California is much more diverse and therefore complicated. In addition, population concentration near steeply rolling hills and canyons and forests, etc. multiplies risks and complicates risk-mitigation.
Someone very knowledgeable wrote in to Adam's show . On the " raking issue " the comment was very intelligent and concise as to why that is the last thing we need to do. I was a horticulture student so a lot of his points touched on familar material. But he spoke in a matter that the average laymen could easily understand . Basically having to do with how important the layer of forest material ( pine needles etc. ) is to the health of the forest. An unmitigated disaster to " rake it " soil is a living entity ( or it should be ) and everything including the life and health of the trees rely on it. Its sad that people that are not knowlegeable constantly speaking on terrain and a place they are not familar with. And playing the blame game when people have lost their lives, their beloved pets and their homes 😢😞💔
You just don’t understand this Stable Genius.
Doesn't California have Eucalypt trees as well, which have volatile oils in their leaves and are known to be very prone to spontaneous combustion? We have a whole country full of gum trees in Australia which are one of the many reasons we have loads of bushfires.
I heard talk of that. It was said that there were different species of eucalyptus trees that are not native to California introduced over the last couple of decades. 🇨🇦 here so I don’t know much about eucalyptus.
A lot of eucalyptus trees have been planted here in Portugal, where major wildfires have occurred in recent years.
In 2023, California reported 7,364 while Texas reported 7,102 wildfires. California’s landscape is dominated by chaparral, grasslands, and coniferous forests, which are highly flammable. Texas forests often have more fire-resistant hardwoods and pine species, which burn less readily. California’s mountainous terrain allows fires to spread rapidly uphill, driven by wind. Texas has more flatlands, which generally slow the spread of fires. Elon has money but no cents.
His career is founded on an interest in tech, sufficient surface-level knowledge to bullshit, and personal financial stability.
I live in CO and most of our fires are from people being irresponsible with fire. In my hometown, we had a devastating wildfire a few years back because an asshole gun owner. He was at a shooting range using illegal ammo that exploded when it hit its target. The target ignited and we lost hundreds of acres, millions of dollars in structures, and how many animals lost their homes and were killed. They were only fined a few thousand dollars in court. In this case, we can blame a gun owner. I wonder how the Republicans would twist the blame in that scenario.
Yes, all this forest talk is almost irrelevant to this discussion. These fires started in urban areas, fueled by the winds.
It is the winds that reverse and come off the desert unlike the usual onshore winds that have humidity. these use to be fall only and over by Thanksgiving and rain came. now they are still coming in January and we have had no rain. I am old and born here my family came in the 19th century so I am well aware of how things get worse every year the last 15 or so. Before a news caster renamed them Santa Ana Winds they were called Santa winds or devil winds. no humidity and they spread the fire so fast and dry things out making fighting near imposable. It is different in Texas. and different than 20 years ago. They come later and the droughts are moor sever. wind and dry are a bad combination.
Musk sees "unprecedented windstorms in CA due to climate change" and goes "WhAT aBoUT tEXaS!?!?!?!?"
Can't spell eLon without an L.
Can't believe some people actually think this guy is smart. Wealth is not an indicator of how smart someone is. He was born into wealth and made some lucky investments. He doesn't do any research himself, he doesn't know much about anything, he just smokes weed all day and posts rubbish on twitter while other people at his companies do the actual work.
This is the American dream. Even the biggest idiot can make it here. That's why they all gather here. 😁
I wonder what his explanation for the excessive, stronger storms on the east coast is? DEI created hurricanes? Weather guns?
Weh-Weh-Weh-Well Hurricanes start as storms in West Africa! Then move over the ocean to become hurricanes. West Africa has Black people living there. Never mind that I can't explain how black skin is supposed to make the West African Disturbance Line (tech term for them) worse! They start in an area with Black people, and so the skin color *just has to* make the storms worse /s
Not every fire starts at the forest floor, especially in high winds!