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A politician is questioning city hall’s climate change action plan, saying greater study is needed before tax dollars and efforts are spent tackling what many have called a crisis.

Coun. Michael van Holst, in a letter going to council’s strategic priorities and policy committee on Monday, calls into doubt what he calls the “carbon-dioxide-is-bad” narrative, saying there is scientific support to argue the opposite.

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In a report to politicians, city hall staff lay out how the city can tackle climate change and describe its wide-ranging impact locally.

If in fact carbon dioxide emissions are positive, “we will be wasting a great deal of time and money on actions that will produce nothing of value and set us back greatly in our goal to tackle the more tangible problems with which we are plagued,” van Holst wrote.

“I will ask that this entire matter be referred back to staff to investigate what parts of the climate change narrative stand up to scrutiny. I think it is time that the skeptics are listened to and not ridiculed.”