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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Again, a complete failure to read the posts and understand the point. It's not whether or not climate change should matter to Albertans. It's that he denies it completely.
Whether the Earth is spherical or flat, it doesn't really matter to Alberta politics. But I imagine, or at least hope, you would be hesitant in voting-in a flat earth believer? It shows a lack of critical thinking, reasonability and rationality when one of the UCP doesn't believe in science and posts hoaxes on his Facebook page. And even a lack of conviction, 10 years he posts that global warming is a hoax, and when confronted about it he tries to minimize his belief.
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There is more than enough scholarly material and research out there that talks about the "point of no return" being only a couple of decades away (e.g. Earth System Dynamics open access journals), depending on what metrics you are looking at. Even then we are seeing wilder, more severe weather patterns, temperature shifts, and naturally (or not) occurring phenomena.
For politicians to put their heads in the sand and pretend it's not true is disastrous at best. No better than flat-earthers or anti-vaccers. And jumping to extreme conclusions (it'll kill our economy) is also unhelpful and sending the wrong message. The world needs to remove itself from over-reliance on fossil fuels; not obliterate commodity use completely. I think that tends to get lost.