there's no energy left to charge the electric cars that could speed us away from wildfires is this the most idiotic example of a climate cult gone mad, asks STEVE HILTON

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.