It was my good fortune to meet up with Dr. Ray many times in Rio during my coverage of that farcical Eco-Woodstock that was presented to the world by the doting Establishment media as a legitimate conference concerned with serious matters of science affecting global survival. Fear of environmental crises, whether real or not, is expected to lead to compliance. Many of these dupes are beyond help. But for the millions of literate Americans who still retain a modicum of common sense, Dixy Lee Ray's Environmental Overkill is a godsend that will serve as a reliable guide through the bewildering welter of claims and counterclaims that typify every environmental debate. Mother earth contributes 600 million tons of chloride through sea water evaporation alone.
Volcanoes provide many billions more.
Water is responsible for 98 percent of all greenhouse warming. And the evidence, from voluminous temperature measurements taken from weather-monitoring stations throughout the world over the past hundred years, as well as the continuous temperature readings taken by the Tiros II satellite, shows no current global temperature trends either up or down. But that is only part of the picture. The good professor surveys the frightening scenarios and frantic statements of the global warmies from a number of different angles, applying common sense and the facts of science so deftly that their perfervid bleatings are completely exposed for the utterly absurd and fraudulent ravings that they have always been. In similar fashion, she methodically examines the emotionally and politically charged doomsday predictions of the self-appointed guardians of the ozone layer.