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fuels is allegedly warming the planet. This hypothesis couldn't stand the test of an eighth<br />

grade science fair. And if you dare poke holes in the hypothesis you're branded a 'denier,‘‖<br />

Sussman told EPW on January 3, 2008. ―Well fine. I'd rather be called a 'denier' than try to<br />

push a scheme that would make Karl Marx green with envy,‖ Sussman added.<br />

Meteorologist Allen Barr, who holds a masters degree in Meteorologist, refuted climate<br />

fears in a talk to Montana lawmakers in 2008 According to a March 2, 2008, article, Barr<br />

said he didn‘t ―think human behavior was behind global warming.‖ (LINK)<br />

Environmental scientist Dr. Kenneth P. Green of the American Enterprise Institute<br />

refuted man-made climate fears in 2008. ―While I believe that Earth has experienced a<br />

mild, non-enhanced greenhouse warming which will continue in the foreseeable future, I<br />

think the chaotic nature of the climate system makes projections of the future climate no<br />

better than science fiction,‖ Green wrote EPW on March 6, 2008. ―I am intensely skeptical<br />

of the entire process of predictive climate modeling, from its ability to meaningfully predict<br />

the climate in the future, to its ability to tell us how much of activity A would result in<br />

climate change B. These models have so many parameters that can be arbitrarily ‗tuned‘ as<br />

to make them little more than a tool for mathematizing the fantasy scenarios of the<br />

programmers who set up and run the programs,‖ Green explained. (LINK)<br />

Chemist and process engineer Ferdinand Engelbeen spoke out in 2008 against dire<br />

global warming predictions. ―Why ‗skeptical‘? As I have some experience with models, be<br />

it in chemical processes, not climate, I know how difficult it is to even make a model of a<br />

simple process where most, if not all, physico-chemical parameters and equations are<br />

exactly known,‖ Engelbeen wrote on his website in November 1, 2008. ―To make a<br />

climate model, where a lot of parameters and reactions are not even known to any<br />

accuracy, for me seems a little bit overblown. And to speak of any predictive power of such<br />

models, which are hardly validated, is as scientific as looking into a crystal ball,‖ he<br />

explained. ―Kyoto in my opinion is a waste of money which will cost much without any<br />

benefit,‖ he added. (LINK)<br />

Frank Wachowski, a retired atmospheric scientist for the National Weather Service,<br />

rejected the notion of a consensus about global warming in 2008. ―The jury is still out,‖<br />

Wachowski said, according to a March 19, 2008 article. ―Obviously, it appears that the<br />

Arctic is getting warmer and causing problems for polar bears and other animals. But are<br />

we doing it? It has become a big political issue,‖ Wachowski explained. ―We don‘t have a<br />

long-enough period to study yet…everything goes through cycles,‖ he concluded. (LINK)<br />

U.S. Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane<br />

Research Division of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in<br />

Miami strongly protested the notion that most scientists agree with man-made climate<br />

change theories in 2008. ―It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is<br />

only a fringe of scientists who don‘t buy into anthropogenic global warming,‖ Goldenberg<br />

said on August 18, 2008. ―Not all scientists agree that the warming we‘ve seen is<br />

necessarily anthropogenic,‖ Goldenberg added. ―There are those who want to attribute any<br />

perceived increase in natural disasters to anthropomorphic global warming. I predict that if<br />

we have an active hurricane season, someone will attribute it to AGW. They‘re not really<br />

looking at the science; they‘re looking at the disaster,‖ he added. Goldenberg also praised<br />

the skeptical climate change conference in New York City in March 2008. ―The fact is that<br />

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