DAVID FISHER, a Floridian professor of cosmochemistry," has produced a trendy introduction to the "greenhouse effect" and ozone depletion, but also addresses a third topic, one intermediate in its relevance and credibility between cold fusion an core, unreconstructed nuclear winter. The effect is like that of pouring a fine bottle of wine only to discover a dead mouse at the bottom, an effect considerably compounded if some of the wine has already been drunk with approbation, and has come from your own vineyard.
Fisher is certainly long on sour grapes where NATIONAL REVIEW iS concerned. The object of his wrath is Brad Sparks's polemic "The Scandal of Nuclear Winter" ...