Inconvenient Truth Fact #1

Polar bears are drowning because of the decline of sea ice.

Source #1- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth

• Noel Sheppard
• Is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters and a contributing writer to the Business and Media Institute.
• He is a somewhat credible source.
• He says,"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."
• Not really because I think Al Gore was talking about more than just 4 polar bears.

Source #2- http://reason.com/news/show/116471.html

• Ronald Bailey
• Award winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and reason.com and also the author of many books including Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.
• Credible
• He said that most polar bear populations are either stable or increasing and evidently polar bears survived when Arctic temperatures were warmer 6000 years ago.
• I believe him because he is very credible and shows where he got the information.

Source #3- http://cei.org/gencon/019,05394.cfm

• Iain Murray
• He is a Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology at CEI(Competitive Enterprises Institute). He has also appeared on Fox News and on CNN Headline News.
• He is credible.
• He says that polar bears are not becoming endangered and that the climate is only having an affect on the West Hudson polar bears.
• I believe him because he is credible and got his information from a leading polar bear biologist.