Greenpeace less scientific

Thanks for opening the pages of your paper to this debate. One example of environmentalists' scare tactics. Ms. Melanie Duchin, of the Greenpeace Ozone Protection Campaign, linked ozone- destroying chemicals "to the reduction, in size, of a certain part of the male anatomy."

A bit of debunking. Mr. S. Fred Singer, who invented the satellite ozone monitor, wrote in Technology: Journal of the Franklin Institute that the CFC phase out was "based mainly on panicky reactions to press release...rather than on published work that withstood the scrutiny of scientific peers."

Sallie Balliunas an award-winning astrophysicist at Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, wrote in a paper, Ozone and Global Warming: Are the problems real? "The Scientific facts clearly indicate, first, that there is no observational evidence that man-made chemicals like CFCs are dangerously thinning the ozone layer over most of the world and, second, that the kind of ultra violet that would be let through by a thinner ozone layer, UV-B is not the UV that causes melanoma. On two counts, the hysteria and costly regulations are entirely unfounded." Cited in Business Week International, June 19, 1995.

"Scientists think that a deep-sea grave would have been preferable to breaking up the (Shell) oil-storage platform on land. On June 29, Nature, a British Scientific magazine, argued that the episode (has again exposed the shallowness of Greenpeace's arguments on scientific issues)." The Economist, July 15.

We shall expose, as well, shrewd opportunists cashing in on environmentalism.

OSVALDO COELHO

Bandung, West Java