Saturday 10 September 2022 12:43 PM STEVE HILTON: This is the most idiotic example of a climate cult gone mad trends now
California is in the grips of a deadly crisis!
No, not the weeks-long 100-degree-plus temperatures blanketing the state.
Heat waves come and go.
I'm talking about something far more insidious. The state is being strangled to death in the clench of a 'climate cult.'
All week every Californian with a cellphone has been receiving desperate text messages pleading with them to 'turn off your appliances' and turn down their air conditioning.
Governor Gavin Newsom has been sending plaintive pleas thanking us for complying and urging us to continue with the rationing measures.
You see -- California's electricity grid cannot cope with the additional demands put upon it by the hot weather.
Newsom assures us our compliance will ensure that 'we can get through this together.'
Governor Gavin Newsom (above) has been sending plaintive pleas thanking us for complying and urging us to continue with the rationing measures.
Get through what?
A stretch of hot days in the summer is nothing new, despite Newsom's false claims of 'unprecedented' temperatures.
The last comparable heat wave occurred in 1988. That's not exactly ancient history.
No, the real reason that California – a state that ranks as the world's fifth largest economy – cannot power its citizens' homes is that for years Newsom and far-left Democrats have waged war on energy in the name of fighting climate change.
For them, the only thing that matters is pushing forward, with all the zeal of the religious fanatic, a crazed and irrational anti-energy, anti-human agenda.
Reliable sources of electricity, like gas-burning power stations and nuclear power, have been undermined, while renewable alternatives like wind and solar have been encouraged through regulation and subsidy.
Let's be clear, the climate is changing, and I have always supported reasonable, balanced policies to address that reality. I also back the sensible use and development of renewables.
But I – and millions of Californians – are not willing to plunge ourselves and our children into hot and dangerous darkness in the pursuit of a vague, self-righteous, ill-conceived crusade that won't even deliver its stated objectives.
There is zero evidence that California's self-sacrifice will amount to any meaningful reduction in global warning.
In any case, there has been no long-term increase in heatwave frequency or severity in the U.S. over the last century, and deaths from heatwaves have fallen significantly - mainly because of the increased availability of air conditioning.
All week every Californian with a cellphone has been receiving desperate text messages pleading with them to 'turn off your appliances' and turn down their air conditioning.
But the climate cultists are telling us to turn our air conditioning off!
Isn't that proof that the headlong retreat from reliable energy has gone too far?
Apparently, not for the high priests of the 'climate crisis', as they call it.
'We understand we cannot have the lights go off,' Siva Gunda, vice chair of the California Energy Commission told The Washington Post. 'But the fear of these questions being brought up is not a reason to slow down from
