Alberta UCP to vote on abandoning CO2 targets at annual general meeting [Video]

A proposal to stop labelling carbon dioxide as a pollutant and instead celebrate it as a “foundational nutrient for all life on Earth” will be up for debate at the United Conservative Party’s (UCP) annual general meeting in November.

The resolution, which includes abandoning Alberta’s net-zero targets, flies in the face of the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions created by humans burning fossil fuels is one of the primary drivers of global warming. 

The increased temperatures, in turn, cause more frequent and extreme weather like wildfires, floods, heat waves, storms and droughts. 

A study published in Nature found the deadly 2021 heat dome in BC that killed more than 619 people was amplified by climate change, and that other events like the fires that tore through Jasper this summer are made more likely and exacerbated by climate change. 

The policy resolution put forward by the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock and Red Deer South constituency associations says the carbon cycle …