Exploding convenient truths

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The lines between human activity-caused global warming and natural causes for climate change are blurrier than generally accepted, according to a speech by glaciologist and geographer Robert Gorman at the Ecomuseum last Thursday night.
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He said that scientists are still figuring out the relationship between climate change and decadal oscillations. "It's not really well understood," he added. Despite this, some media mistakenly report the effects of decadal oscillations as caused by climate change.

For example, though a recent report by CBC suggested that a huge ice fracture in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea area may be attributed to climate change, Gorman dismissed the claim. "I see this every year," he said.

He called the too-easy explanations of news media or even former vice-presidential candidate Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth as "hollywoodization" of climate change.
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Surprisingly, very few hands went up in when Gorman asked his listeners whether they thought that climate change was the result of human activity.