Pleiadian Warning About Ozone Holes ( I )

If Billy Meier spoke about "ozone holes" in the stratosphere in 1975, that is remarkable. Ozone depletion in the atmosphere was widely discussed since around 1970, but it was assumed that this depletion would be be gradual and fairly homogenous throughout the stratosphere.

Here is the opening paragraph of the article "The Antartic Ozone Hole" by Richard S. Stolarski (Sci.Amer. Jan. 1988, p. 30):

"In 1985 atmospheric scientists of the British Antarctic Survey published a completely unexpected finding: the springtime amounts of ozone in the atmosphere over Halley Bay, Antarctica, had decreased by more than 40 percent between 1977 and 1984. Other groups soon confirmed the report and showed that the region of oxone depletion was actually wider than the contintent and extended roughly from 12 to 24 kilometers in altitude, spanning much of the lower stratosphere. There was, in essence, an ozone 'hole' in the polar atmosphere."

One must contrast this with the scientific description of "ozone depletion" in 1975. For example the Britannica Yearbook 1975 (for events in 1974) says on page 284:

"The Ozone Shield. A new environmental threat appeared during the year, this time from aerosol sprays. For several years there had been warnings about the dangers implicit in any reduction in the belt of ozone that surrounds the planet. Ozone absorbs incomning ultraviolet radiation, and a diminution in the shield might have serious effects on living organisms at the surface. In June 1974 a report in Nature described the most authoritative mearsurements made so fare of actual ozone levels, by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. They showed that there was a continuous downward trend in ozone concentrations below the 300km level from 1965 to 1973, whereas above 30 km, the concentration appeared to be increasing. Through previous measurements had shown a regular rise and fall in cencentrations that could be related to the solar cycle, the new trend was continuous and cut across the solar cycle.

"In 1972 and 1973 the threat was believed to come mainly from rockets, high-flying aircraft, and industrial pollutants, but a paper published in Science (September 27) suggested that the main cause might be the propellants used in aerosols. The chemicals must commonly used (chlorofluromethanes) are relatively innert and rise into the stratosphere where thay are broken down by ultraviolet light, releasing chlorine atoms which react with atmosphereic ozone. Warning of this danger came from F.S. Rowland, of the University of California at Irvine, in a address given in September at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City, N.J."