ECHOES AND UPDATES

"I find your little photo essay [AtE Dec 91] so offensive that I would cancel my subscription if I could find some other place with this scope of technical information, as accurately and clearly presented." L.M. [male], New York, N.Y.

"The 'Do not sexually harass us!' piece in the December issue was so funny that I've been laughing for days! As a woman, I think you have accurately portrayed these embittered old hags for what they are.

"By the way, I just want you to know that as long as you write I will be a subscriber. Your newsletter is read in one sitting, front to back, by my husband, my 13-year-old son and myself. Then I discuss it with my family over dinner. Because of you, my 13-year-old son is the only one with a fresh, dissenting point of view among all his brainwashed, public-miseducated school friends."

Haroun Tazieff, a 77-year-old Polish-born Frenchman, is a world-famous volcanologists, who has taught at many universities, headed many expeditions and research institutes, worked for UNESCO, and most recently was France's secretary of state for the prevention of major natural and technological disasters. Asked in a recent interview about global warming, he replied: "Global warming is an outright invention. It is absolutely unproven and in my view it is a lie. A lie that will cost billions of dollars annually. It's just like it was about twenty years ago, when a ban was proclaimed on pyralenes, dioxin, etc., which were accused of all evils and which are practically harmless substances. It's the same thing with the CFCs, the chloro-fluorocarbons. There is no danger from the CFCs to the ozone layer, nor is there any danger from CO^2, no greenhouse effect, nor any risk of any kind of global warming. It is, to me, a pure falsehood." [Champs Elysees, Paris, Dec. 1991.]