"Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was roundly booed and mocked at an Alberta election debate Thursday for questioning climate change"

Catcalls greet Wildrose stance on climate change | Metro

EDMONTON – Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was roundly booed and mocked at an Alberta election debate Thursday for questioning climate change, with Premier Alison Redford suggesting Smith in the province’s top job would be a national embarrassment.

“There is still a debate in the scientific community,” said Smith before being drowned out by a chorus of boos and catcalls from hundreds of people who attended a leaders debate outside CBC’s downtown studio.

“And we’re going to continue to watch the debate in the scientific community,” she said raising her voice to be heard...The climate-change debate was among the most spirited.

...“Rebates are not going to fix this problem,” NDP leader Brian Mason shot back.

“In my opinion, the science is completely settled. The only people that are disputing it are the phoney scientists funded by the oil industry,” he said to cheers. “We need to get serious about it.”

...“There are a lot of things that could be done that should have been done a long time ago, but denying the science of climate change is just foolish.”

Redford said if Alberta has a premier questioning climate change, it won’t be taken seriously on the national or international stage.

“When I go to Washington and I talk to people in the White House, at Capitol Hill, and I’m trying to talk to them about why we need Keystone, they don’t want to hear that I don’t believe in climate change,” she said.