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Was there abdo-lutely no way of making those measurements in the 1960s?

Weather balloons could take very high altitude air samples.

But you must remember that despite what the modelers assume the atmosphere is not a homogeneous mixture and sampling methods, efficiencies of detection and numbers of samples taken are drastically different 50 years hence.

“drastically different 50 years hence.”
There’s no question about that. I was just trying to figure out how they arrived at their figures for 1960s. It seems that whenever you see anything about weather balloons, they’re always being released in fairly unpopulated areas. I would think one wouldn’t want to release them near airline routes, etc. So, considering that. their figures might be extremely low. A higher figure would show a much slower than predicted rise in atmospheric chlorine, ozone, whatever!

High altitude samples were taken then, but not for what you think of as open-desk research in general studies. Most were done in odd locations at classified times and classified elevations. And the samples they were taking were very specialized, not a “let's sample everything everywhere and see what we get in trace gasses over a wide area over a long period of time for weather research in 2008.”

The high altitude weather balloons sampling the 50’s and 60’s were almost all done by (or for) the DOD nuclear testing programs, and to test for enemy nuclear weapon explosions. To see what we were releasing (and how to cover it up, clean it up) and what they were releasing - to see how powerful their bombs were and how well we could detect bomb blasts.

Very, very little was openly released then (particularly then) and now? If you get data, how relevant it is (in the hands of today's propagandists?