Last year was the hottest year on record and 2024 is tracking to be similar or hotter. At the same time, Alberta reports an all-time record for oil production. Climate scientists say those two things cannot coexist if we are serious about tackling the extreme changes to our climate. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is out to prove her province can do both: rocket production and curb pollution. Only there is someone in her way, she says: federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. We dig into the “boiling point” between Smith and Guilbeault over the Trudeau government’s climate plans, including putting a cap on oil and gas emissions. They both agreed to speak to The Fifth Estate – and they didn’t hold back. “He’s an ideologue” Smith told us, “he’s going too far,” and she wants him gone. She’s called him treacherous, an eco-extremist, even a menace. Guilbeault is as pointed about Smith: “It’s not about facts, it’s all about trying to score cheap political points.'' This week, we take you inside the climate chaos. We take you to Dubai and that huge climate conference called COP28. What really happened? In the 28 years of COP conferences, greenhouse gas emissions have just gone up. And so have temperatures. Pushing politics aside, we meet people who are battling governments and corporations on the streets and in the courts. And we meet a woman who lost her sister in that suffocating heat dome in B.C. “My sister died and it mattered,” says Jane Armstrong. You can watch “Boiling Point: Climate Chaos” on YouTube right now and at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV or stream it on CBC Gem. Susan Ormiston CBC News International Climate Correspondent
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