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Last but not least this post comes from "The Province". Now people all over the world are offering to help the victims in whatever way possible. This blog shows the hospitality that people are offering those affected by the wildfires. In this post, it shows the Pope praying for those in California. Personally I think this is beautiful and I too pray for those that have been killed, injured, or are tragically still missing to this day.

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has prayed for victims of California's wildfires and freezing weather on the U.S. East Coast.

Addressing tens of thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square Sunday, including pilgrims from New York and New Jersey. Francis prayed that "the Lord welcome the deceased into his peace, comfort family members and sustain all those involved in rescue efforts."

Francis said he wanted to offer a "special prayer to all those stricken by the fires that are scourging California, and now also for the victims of the freeze of the east coast of the United States."

At least 76 people perished, and hundreds are unaccounted for in the California wildfires. In the eastern U.S., an unusually early winter snowstorm last week was blamed for at least seven deaths.

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has prayed for victims of California's wildfires and freezing weather on the U.S. East Coast. Addressing tens of thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square Sunday, including pilgrims from New York and New Jersey. Francis prayed that "the Lord welcome the deceased into his peace, comfort family members and sustain all those involved in rescue efforts."

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This post comes from CTV News. It shows the hospitality that people around the world have for the people of California. Specifically, these people are from Canada and are in California helping the victims of these raging wildfires. Posts like this make me proud to be a Canadian.

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A Canadian couple is spending their vacation helping victims of the California wildfires after their Airbnb was burned to the ground.

A smoky tent city in a Walmart parking lot was not where Paul and Destinee Klyne planned to spend their holiday.

But when the Penticton, B.C. pair witnessed the devastation from the ongoing fire - which has left 74 dead and more than a thousand people unaccounted for - they knew they had to do something to help.

Since Tuesday, they've been coming to the lot in the city of Chico, 70 kilometres from the fire zone, where hundreds of evacuees are living, to hand out food and provide emotional support.

"We just took advantage of the [plane] tickets we already had," Paul told CTV Vancouver.

"They're devastated completely, there are horrible stories like that and on the flip side we see people running to embrace people and say 'I'm so happy you're alive.'"

The couple were due to stay near the small town of Paradise, which has been incinerated, leaving at least 71 people dead.

Hundreds of Californians, mostly seniors, are still missing and tens of thousands have been displaced.

The Klynes' vacation was supposed to be full of rest and relaxation, complete with a spa getaway and visits with friends. They left their son at home so they could really unwind - but once they saw what was happening, their plans changed.

"There's so much help that's needed, so many people are displaced," Paul said.

"The biggest thing we're doing is bringing some love from north of the border."

Living in the Okanagan, Klyne said his family is no stranger to wildfires, but it was hard to compare what they've experienced in B.C. with what's currently happening in California.

The couple plan to fly home to Penticton on Sunday.

With a report from CTV Vancouver's Shannon Paterson

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Here is a similar post to the first one I have chosen. This post comes from Global News and is a different view on what Trump has said about the wildfires in California. This post explains how devastating this event has been and explains how many people have been affected by this, whether it be death or home loss.

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From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he had to come to the heart of California's killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape.

"We're going to have to work quickly. Hopefully, this is going to be the last of these because this was a really, really bad one," said the president, who pledged that improved forest management practices would diminish future risks.

READ MORE: National parks, popular destinations among California wildfires' destruction

"I think everybody's seen the light and I don't think we'll have this again to this extent," Trump said in Paradise, the town largely destroyed by a wildfire ignited Nov. 8 that he called "this monster."

At least 71 people have died across Northern California, and authorities are trying to locate more than 1,000 people, though not all are believed missing. More than 5,500 fire personnel were battling the blaze that covered 590 square kilometres and was about 50 per cent contained, officials said.
WATCH: Trump says California wildfires have not changed his mind on climate change
"It's going to work out well, but right now we want to take care of the people that are so badly hurt," Trump said from what remained of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park. He noted "there are areas you can't even get to them yet" and the sheer number of people unaccounted for.

"I think people have to see this really to understand it," Trump said.

Several burned-out cars were nearby. Trees were burned, their leaves gone. Homes were totally gone; some foundations and twisted steel remained, as did a chimney. The fire was reported to have moved through the area at 80 mph.

The president later toured an operation centre, met with response commanders and praised the work of firefighters, law enforcement and representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"We've never seen anything like this in California," Trump said.

Trump took a helicopter tour en route to Chico before he toured Paradise. A full cover of haze and the smell of smoke greeted the president upon his arrival at Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento.

Trump left Washington early Saturday and didn't expect to return to the White House until well past midnight. He was expected to travel several hundred miles south to visit with victims of a recent country music bar shooting. A gunman killed a dozen people at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, north of Los Angeles, on Nov. 7 before committing suicide.

WATCH: Trump heads to California to visit wildfire victims

Trump long has struggled to convey empathy to victims of national disasters and tragedies. His first reaction to the fires came in a tweet last week: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests."

Nature and humans share blame for the wildfires, but forest management did not play a major role, despite Trump's claims, fire scientists say. Nature provides the dangerous winds that have whipped the fires, and human-caused climate change over the long haul is killing and drying the shrubs and trees that provide the fuel.

READ MORE: Many people in their 80s and 90s are missing in the California wildfire

Trump stuck to that theme in his remarks just before departing on Saturday when he outlined what he planned to discuss with Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, both Democrats: "We will be talking about forest management. ... The one thing is that everybody now knows that this is what we have to be doing and there's no question about it. It should have been done many years ago, but I think everybody's on the right side."

Trump, who has long feuded with the political leaders of heavily Democratic California over issues such as immigration and voting, also has threatened to withhold federal payments to the state. After being criticized for his response, Trump shifted gears, expressing words of encouragement to first responders and those of sympathy for hit victims.

READ MORE: California's wildfire smoke could lead to long-term health problems

But when he was asked by Fox News in an interview set to air Sunday whether climate change played a role in the number of serious fires, he said: "Maybe it contributes a little bit. The big problem we have is management." He added that he was surprised to see images of firefighters removing dried brush near a fire. "This should have been all raked out."

Brown and Newsom said Friday they welcomed the president's visit, and "now is a time to pull together for the people of California."

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Donald Trump visits California wildfire zones: 'We got to take care of the floors of the forest'

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From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he had to come to the heart of California's killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape. "We're going to have to work quickly.

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This post is a blog that comes from arther and directly ties into the conspiracy theories on the wildfires. Mainly, the post focuses on the possibility of government corruption and how there are things that can not really be explained on what people are seeing and posting about these wildfires. I find this post to represent the wildfires devastation very well.

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This month, California has been gripped by three devastating wildfires: Northern California's Camp Fire, which recently became the deadliest in the state's history, and, in Southern California, the Woolsey and Hill Fires. An emerging, deeply weird conspiracy theory holds that those fires aren't caused by wind patterns, brutally dry conditions, the worsening effects of climate change, or possible downed power lines, but by a sinister scheme directed by nefarious elements within the government.

The claim, being taken up by an increasing number of people in QAnon circles, is that the fires are caused by "directed energy weapons"-that is, government-directed lasers bent on destroying homes, property, and lives. And if recent history is any judge, there's a chance the country's biggest conspiracy-peddlers, up to and including the one who lives in the White House, will take up the cause.

Directed energy weapons, or DEWs, have an interesting place in conspiratorial circles. DEWs are, to begin with, a real technology, but one still in its infancy: a report produced for Congress describes that term as an umbrella to refer to technologies "that produce concentrated electromagnetic energy and atomic or subatomic particles." The consensusis that there are a number of logistical issues to work out before that the U.S. government will be able to build a laser system that would actually be workable on a battlefield, but that the Department of Defense and private contractors are eager to leverage laser power towards killing people and/or destroying enemy missiles, aircrafts, or satellites.

If you ask people in the deep end of the conspiracy theory pool, though, DEWs are here already. There's a small body of people who believe themselves to be "targeted individuals"-stalked, harassed, and attacked by the government or other shadowy groups-and at least some of them believe those attacks are being carried out by DEWs. Now, through a strange confluence of forces, the paranoia over DEWs is making its way into the discussion about natural disasters. What we're seeing is a convergence of longstanding American fears about government mind control and manipulation of the weather merging with climate change skepticism, as climate science becomes ever-more-politicized.

Like many conspiracy theories, it's not entirely possible to trace where the DEW theories came from. As best I can tell, one of the earliest promoters of that claim was a flat-earth YouTuber going by the name ODD Reality (real name Matt Procella), who started talking about DEWs during the devastating wildfires that raged across California in October 2017.

"You'll notice here that stores and restaurants are wiped out, while other things are still in perfect shape," Procella intones, over still images of fire damage, some of them sourced, he says, from a Serbian conspiracy site (and some of which appear to be computer-generated). "Other buildings are fine, trees are untouched, but specific structures are just devastated. You gotta ask yourself, what's up with that ... Is this the result of direct energy weapons? Ranged weapons that inflict damage on a target by emitting highly-focused energy? The answer is most likely yes."

There's actually a fair amount of research to explain why some structures are destroyed and some are spared during a wildfire that has nothing to do with laser weapons. But the broader point Procella is trying to make is about intent: Someone is deliberately destroying certain buildings. That point, though, gets a little mushy. He speculates that "all these things" are a "distraction from the Vegas incident," by which he means the mass shooting in Las Vegas that month that killed 58 people.

Elsewhere, the question of why the government would spend its time pointing lasers at people's houses and Burger Kings has been made somewhat clearer. The left-leaning March Against Monsanto site, which often engages in conspiracy theorizing about GMOs, ran a speculative article about DEW s, reasoning that they could be just another form of government manipulation.

People who believe in chemtrails are also concerned about DEWs, and have a more fully fleshed-out explanation for what they're meant to do. ("Chemtrails" are harmless condensation trails left by aircrafts, but since the late 1990s, a conspiratorial community has been raising concerns that they're actually toxic, potentially mind-controlling chemicals.) On one chemtrail-oriented site, Chemtrail Planet, an unnamed author speculates that last year's fires were part of a joint plan by FEMA and the United Nations to institute more centralized global control, what they called "Agenda 30." The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is actually a resolution passed in 2015 by the General Assembly, promising to do a host of things to make the world better by 2030, including "taking urgent action on climate change." Like every UN action, conspiracy theorists claim it's mean to institute a centralized one-world government, and like always, that is not true.

There's also evidence that DEWs are becoming part of the cosmology of the QAnon crowd, a remarkably pliant group who have proven that they're able to incorporate just about anything into their belief system. (QAnon, for the uninitiated, is the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is secretly doing a really good job, and is this close to uncovering and disarming various evil forces working against him within the government.) The hashtag #DEW has begun to show up in QAnon-oriented Twitter conversations, with several much-retweeted Tweets imploring Trump to take action.

Yet another version of the DEWs story claims that the wildfires were directed in such a way to destroy structures in order to make way for a high-speed rail system, part of a Democrat plot. That's right: the government is destroying vast swaths of trees, houses and infrastructure to force people to ride the train. That tweeted idea is also tagged with several QAnon-related hashtags.

Inevitably, the conspiracy theory is migrating to bigger and bigger accounts. On Thursday, a far-right internet personality and QAnon booster named Mike Tokes, who has 170,000 Twitter followers, aggressively took up the cause, using the same line of argument: some homes burned, others didn't, thus lasers must be at work.

The DEW theory is inextricably tied to skepticism about the very idea of climate change, a sense that global warming is just the cover explanation for the various sinister plots at work against us. It's also, of course, tied to longstanding conspiracy theories about the government controlling the weather, such as the idea that the government already has a weather control tool called HAARP, which it also uses for "electromagnetic warfare." (HAARP is actually a muchless exciting research program that studies the uppermost levels of our atmosphere and was years run by the Air Force and University of Alaska Fairbanks. Since 2015, UAF has run it alone, albeit on Air Force land, and has produced a very patient FAQ explaining that HAARP does not exert mind control over people.)

Weather and climate conspiracists are, though, not a big group of people, says John Cook, a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University who also runs a site called Skeptical Science that outlines the shoddy science and arguments behind global warming skepticism.

"Climate change conspiracy theories may seem more popular but they're still very marginal," Cook told Earther. "The proportion of the US public who are dismissive about climate change is about nine percent. You don't want to overstate their importance because that can have a negative effect."

That said, there may well be a broader swath of the public that is open to conspiracy theories and denialism, if not hardcore about them. For instance, a survey on chemtrails from last year that found up to 30 percent of people polled thought they may be "somewhat real". And recent polls show most U.S. Republicans still believe global warming concerns are exaggerated, and that the partisan divide on the issue is growing.

Climate change skepticism and other, more out-there forms of conspiracy theorizing about the weather have a few things in common, Cook said. "There is a similarity in that it's trying to make sense of disturbing events by imaging these patterns."

But there's also an important distinction. "Climate conspiracy theories tend to be an attempt to explain why there's a scientific consensus on climate change," usually by invoking a vast conspiracy among the world's climate scientists. "Whereas space laser wildfires are-kind of-"

Cook paused for a moment, politely.

"They're an isolated single event thing," he finished. "As opposed to a more systematic, holistic explanation of the whole climate."

Social media, particularly Twitter, has inarguably helped the spread of conspiracy theories about the climate, Cook said. He and his colleagues have studied how to "inoculate" people against misinformation (and even made a handy video about it), but he admits it's an uphill battle.

"It's difficult," he said. "Conspiracy theories are the hardest thing to counter. They're so nihilistic, and any attempt to rebut them is seen as more evidence of the conspiracy theory. But the general rule is the way to counter the myth is to replace it with a stickier fact."

One issue, Cook said, is that conspiracy theories can cause people to shut down and stop looking for what's true: "There's a danger that they'll disengage and just stop believing in facts."

And the facts are plenty terrifying on their own: These fires have already been hellaciously destructive, the deadliest in a century or more, with at least 63 people dead in the Camp Fire alone, three more killed in the Woolsey fire, more than 600 missing, thousands of acres burned, homes destroyed and lives devastated. The president is already engaged in smears and misinformation, bizarrely claiming that "forest management" was to blame for fires that didn't even originate in forests. Though the causes of the fires are still under investigation, there's evidence that a downed PG&E power line could have potentially sparked the Camp Fire. There's evidence that public policy and regulation simply aren't working, given that PG&E electrical equipment was found responsible for 17 of 21 wildfires in Northern California last fall, and that climate change is only making the situation worse. And there's deep inequality at work, given that working-class communities like Paradise are all but destroyed, while wealthier areas are able to hire their own firefighters to battle the blazes.

And if those facts aren't deemed worthy of engagement-if people instead retreat into fantasy and rumor and innuendo-there's the fact that the next fire isn't far away. It's simply waiting for its spark.

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California's Wildfires Have Spawned a Truly Weird New Conspiracy Theory

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This month, California has been gripped by three devastating wildfires: Northern California's Camp Fire, which recently became the deadliest in the state's history, and, in Southern California, the Woolsey and Hill Fires.

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This multiple picture post comes from Instagram and is also focused on the unexplained phenomena's that people have captured via photos and videos. I find the photos to show crazy things that don't make sense. The thought of the government attacking their own people is very freighting.

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Here is a post from Instagram. It's a picture that displays how many Americans view Donald Trump. As mentioned earlier, Donald Trump has a history of belittling many things Americans care deeply about. This illustration shows Donald Trump responding to the raging wildfires and he simply says "we should rake up the forest floors". This, like many previous events that have taken place, have caused Americans to feel angry and as if their concerns don't matter. The wildfires clearly represent the results of climate change and Donald Trump is choosing to ignore the obvious.

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This post is a video posted on Instagram and it really speaks for itself. Clearly, in the video it shows what it currently is looking like in California. This amazing but also frightening video really captures what a wildfire looks like and the damages it has caused. I think this really shows the world how bad the wildfires are.

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This post comes from twitter and basically explains a little bit how climate change works and how climate change does make wildfires worse. From this post I gather that there has to be a lot of things put in place to cause a wildfire. It appears that the media is unsure if all of these things were in place to allow this wildfire to happen.

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This post also comes from twitter and is a realization of how devastating the wildfires have been. In this post it shows a graph on the difference between past wildfires and how the most recent, is the biggest wildfire that has ever happened. I think this represents the extensive impact climate change has on our environment and how greatly it has progressed in recent years.

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This post comes from twitter and is the most recent update on the wildfires in California and what the government is doing to stop them. I chose this to be the first post because it really shows that the united states government, or should I say, Donald Trump has no real concern about what is happening and still believes that climate change is a hoax.

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Trump is asked if the seeing the devastation from the California wildfires has changed his opinion on climate change.

Trump: "No. No. I have a strong opinion: I want great climate." (via CNN)

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