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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This book is intended as a guide for citizens who want to ask that important question: Where is the scientific evidence? Is the sky really falling? Is the ozone layer really being depleted by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)-or are we victims of a sophisticated Foxy Loxy?

This book is the result of that quest for the scientific truth about ozone. Because the material presented will change most readers' basic assumptions, we have quoted extensively from the many scientists and scientific papers that demonstrate why the ozone depletion theory is a fraud. Most of the evidence presented here can be confirmed by a trip to a library that subscribes to scientific journals.

(Extracted from the Introduction).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Haroun Tazieff.

-Introduction.

-1- Natural Sources of Chlorine Are Much Greater Than CFCs.

-2- The Ozone Wars.

-3- Ozone Depletion, or Doctored Data?

-4- What Really Happens to CFCs.

-5- The Antarctic Ozone Hole.

-6- Ultraviolet Radiation: Friend or Foe?

-7- The Montreal Protocol.

-8- No More Chemicals?

-9- The Corporate Environmentalists.

-10- Who Owns the Environmental Movement?

-11- Gaia: The Environmentalists' Pagan Religion.

-12- Great Projects to Transform the Globe.

-Appendix: Ozone in the Atmosphere, Chapter 6 From G.M.B. Dobson's 1968 Book, Exploring the Atmosphere.

-Index.

-About the Authors.

OUR REVIEW

No doubt that such a popular question as the ozone layer has left almost no one unconcerned. The scientists that have studied the phenomenon have undertaken all manner of positions, almost all of them of an extremist nature. Thus, there exist those who claim that the current situation is potentially dangerous for the world health at a short term, and also those who believe the opposite. The book at hand can surely be classified within this latter group, although it also is true that any of these positions are partially right, and partially wrong. It simply happens that the issue has not been researched in a sufficient depth, although it may perhaps be truly researched in a short term due to the new space systems already being prepared. The Holes in the Ozone Scare opens our eyes by discovering some environmental practices as debatable as those typical of the ones damaging the environment, and it also contributes some curious data indicating that science is utilized with political ends more often than we used to think it was. The authors try to prove, for instance, that the decrease in the ozone layer has comparable effects with respect to an increase in the ultraviolet radiation and the risk of skin cancer to what for us would be travelling but a few kilometers south.

Thus, according to Maduro and Schauerhammer, the phenomenon has been exploited in a sensationalist way by the press and the media, and occasionally it has also been used to favor certain companies that intend to replace CFCs by other products thus getting double profit for the same business. Therefore, this work will be useful for those readers who do not feel fully satisfied with the "official" explanations and who want to examine the issue from another viewpoint less contaminated by interests different from the merely scientific ones. The book, first published in 1992, and having two further editions, will perhaps not be wholly updated, but will provide a new, fresh vision worthy of consideration.