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One-time media baron Conrad Black told a Calgary conference on Alberta’s future that the province’s economic troubles are in part because of a worldwide “holy war” on fossil fuel industries.

Black’s keynote speech at Saturday’s Value of Alberta conference touched on topics from the American political landscape to the virtues of capitalism, but focused mostly on the effect of climate policy in Canada on Alberta’s energy industry.

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“We do not have the scientific research that demonstrates that the level of alarm that’s been reached is justified,” Black said to applause. “There hasn’t been global warming in the first 20 years of this century, and it is a terrible fate but a reversible fate that this province has to bear the burden of this almost incredible seizure.”

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group consisting of thousands of scientists and considered to be the global authority on climate change, has published reports warning that world powers must take immediate action to curb global warming, with the planet at risk of hitting the threshold level of 1.5C warming by 2030.