Gore’s assertion that polar bears will become extinct due to global warming is an alarmist exaggeration

Return to Criticisms of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”
An Inconvenient Truth claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
The thrust of the argument [...]