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Guest Comment: Stratospheric Ozone Doubts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

S. Fred Singer
Affiliation:
Science and Environmental Policy Project, 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1003, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA; also Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia.
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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