It’s a good thing we have the Epoch Times as an alternative to the Los Angeles Times on California news, especially climate issues. The latter’s “climate columnist,” Sammy Roth, has been brewing climate alarmism in several recent articles of his “weekly Boiling Point newsletter,” as he calls it. The very title indicates his bias: that man-made “climate change” is boiling the earth.
Indeed, his latest newsletter is headlined, “It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters.” It warns, “rising seas have forced us to consider pulling back from the coast.” Except President Barack Obama, another climate alarmist, in 2019 bought a massive compound on Martha’s Vineyard right on the ocean in Massachusetts.
To find out what’s really going on in 2024, I talked to Ronald Stein, whom I’ve known since 2017, when I was hired as then-state Sen. John Moorlach’s press secretary. Mr. Stein gave our staff a lot of great information on energy policy. He’s an engineer, energy policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, the author of “Clean Energy Exploitation” and other books, and the frequent source for articles and interviews in this newspaper.
“The problem I have with Sammy Roth is he doesn’t know the difference between electricity and products,” Mr. Stein said. “He keeps talking about how wind and solar energy can solve our problems. But wind and solar only generate electricity. Our climate is changing. But if you get rid of crude oil, you’re going to get rid of a couple billion people.”