[IronJack]

science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off

However, that is pure speculation since "science" has not established that

1) sea ice is melting at anything outside normal rates, if at all. And
2) polar bears are not dying off at rates exceeding the norm.

If the results are falsified, it's most likely the cause is as well.

[Don Corleone]

Al Gore made more money off of this fakery than he ever would have out of winning the election.

[BroJoeK]

Last time I looked Polar bear populations were increasing in some regions, falling in others, not so much from climate change as human hunting, or absence of.