Alberta Conservative Party Rejects Trudeau’s ‘Net Zero’ Lunacy
Did you know that up to 50 percent of the globe has experienced increased vegetation and that 70 percent of the greening is from plant fertilization by carbon dioxide emissions from ‘fossil fuels’?
Or that nearly 200,000 square kilometers of the southern Sahara have been converted to a lush grassland from the desert?
Few have heard that doubling atmospheric CO2 from its current concentration of 420 ppm would significantly increase agricultural productivity and still have no effect on the climate.
It appears that some of this knowledge has reached Canada because Alberta’s ruling Unified Conservative Party (UCP) recently approved a resolution that promotes the salutary effects of CO2 and endorses an outright rejection of the national government’s ‘net zero’ policy.
“It is estimated that (atmospheric) CO2 levels need to be above 150 ppm (parts per million) to ensure the survival of plant life,” says the proposal for a resolution eventually adopted by the party.
“The Earth needs more CO2 to support life and to increase plant and crop yields, both of which will contribute to the health and prosperity of all Albertans.”
The UCP calls for abandoning CO2’s designation as a pollutant and for recognizing the gas as “a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.”
The UCP’s action was not well received by the likes of DeSmog, an online platform of climate alarmists, which called the party’s resolution “a brazen display of climate science denial that harkens back to the 1990s fossil fuel industry playbook.”
DeSmog reported that the UCP had credited the “notorious” CO2 Coalition as its source of information—much to our gratification.
Except for the politically connected in the climate industrial complex, the ‘carbon’ footprint phobia of recent years is a threat to everybody’s economic well-being. But it is a direct assault on a place like Alberta.
Perhaps second only to the Canadian Rockies, the most distinguishing natural resource of the western province is its huge deposit of oil sands—the world’s fourth-largest proven reserve of “black gold.”
Employing nearly 140,000 people and generating $17 billion in royalties, the oil industry is valued by Albertans.
“The problem is net zero has become a shorthand for ‘leave it in the ground,’” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. She plans to fight “the federal government and a coalition of extreme environmentalists who want to stop the production of oil and gas altogether.”
It is a good day when we find ourselves on the side of people fighting for the freedom to prosper as they contribute to the atmospheric store of carbon dioxide that enriches ecosystems and engenders life.
To paraphrase Donald Trump: Let’s make CO2 great again.
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Editor’s note: the work of Craig & Sherwood Idso shows that the ideal concentration for best plant & crop growth is 1200ppm, two and a half times our current amount of 420ppm.
About the author: Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, former expert reviewer for the IPCC on their AR6 report. He is the bestselling author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know” and “A Very Convenient Warming: How Modest Warming and More CO2 Are Benefiting Humanity”
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