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Ash cloud that never was: Volcanic plume over UK only a twentieth of safe-flying limit
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 25, 2010 | DAVID ROSE, MATT SANDY and SIMON MCGEE

Posted on 04/24/2010 8:26:14 PM PDT by Stoat

The Mail on Sunday can today reveal the full extent of the shambles behind the great airspace shutdown that cost the airlines £1.3 billion and left 150,000 Britons stranded - all for a supposed volcanic ash cloud that for most of the five-day flights ban was so thin it was invisible.

 

As the satellite images of the so-called 'aerosol index' published for the first time, right, demonstrate, the sky above Britain was totally clear of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano.

Inquiries by this newspaper have disclosed that:

 

'We never understood why a blanket ban had been imposed - something that would not have happened in other parts of the world,' a senior airline executive said yesterday.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aviation; britain; england; europe; eyjafjallajoekull; greatbritain; iceland; uk; unitedkingdom; volcano
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To: Stoat
"Computers at the Met Office, which earlier forecast a 'barbecue summer' last year and a mild winter for this year, produced a stream of maps predicting the ash would cover a vast area, eventually stretching from Russia to Newfoundland.

But across almost all of it, there was virtually no ash at all, and none visible to satellites."

Now where have we seen people relying on computer modeling to predict atmospheric phenomena that never materialized?

I'm almost sure that it was British scientists that did this before, and the whole thing turned out to be a huge hoax.

It's on the tip of my tongue. Anyone remember?

41 posted on 04/24/2010 9:41:07 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: DoughtyOne

This is no different than the volcano Iceland had in the early ‘70’s. No flights were affected then and none should have been now.


42 posted on 04/24/2010 9:42:45 PM PDT by Balata
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To: neodad

Well, you beat me. But, then I am late to this post.

I was heldover....


43 posted on 04/24/2010 9:43:00 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: muawiyah
Bob, there are people who simply refuse to believe that transparent stuff like caustic gas can damage stuff and kill people.

Their view is that if you can't see it, it doesn't exist.

Perhaps I haven't been following the story as closely as I might have - Yours is the first mention that I've seen of caustic fumes emitted by the eruption. While I'd consider that highly likely, the only gas that I've seen mentioned is that dreaded pollutant, planet-killing CO2. :=)

Do you have any details as to the composition and concentrations of the other gasses produced?

44 posted on 04/24/2010 9:44:07 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Balata

It does make you wonder what’s going on doesn’t it. Thanks for the mention.


45 posted on 04/24/2010 9:44:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the know-nothing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr., may fleas be upon him.)
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To: SmartInsight
20-20 hindside vision.



46 posted on 04/24/2010 9:48:37 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Stoat

GIGO


47 posted on 04/24/2010 9:50:24 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: DoughtyOne; Windflier

Yes it does. It also make you wonder why Windflier did that post. ;^)


48 posted on 04/24/2010 9:52:36 PM PDT by Balata
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To: Balata; SmartInsight
It also make you wonder why Windflier did that post. ;^)

I'm a sucker for an opening like the one SmartInsight gave me. I get my wife on her gaffes all the time.

49 posted on 04/24/2010 9:55:03 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Carling
We did too. It was amazing. All the cars were covered in ash ...all the way to the east coast.


50 posted on 04/24/2010 9:56:16 PM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: muawiyah

I am wondering if there were significant planes grounded when Mt. Pinatubo erupted? I don’t recall hearing about it.


51 posted on 04/24/2010 9:57:10 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Stoat

52 posted on 04/24/2010 10:09:23 PM PDT by razorback-bert (So many questions, so few answers about Barry.)
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To: Daffynition

Thats my wifes car


53 posted on 04/24/2010 10:36:28 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Stoat

The Icelandic volcano, Katla, should have a follow up eruption within about six months.

That one will make this recent eruption look like a walk in the park. Maybe then Europe will be justified in shutting down their airspace.


54 posted on 04/24/2010 10:44:07 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Stoat
Well, it looked pretty serious from space:

This is 1/4-size; click for full-size.

55 posted on 04/24/2010 11:10:34 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Stoat
While money has been thrown at climate change studies - the Met Office has received over £200million - other meteorological research has been starved of funds.

That sums it up well.

56 posted on 04/24/2010 11:26:41 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Windflier

I know how to spell, but sometimes my fingers don’t. ;)


57 posted on 04/24/2010 11:35:03 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: Travis McGee

Thankfully, we don’t do that here...as of now, anyway. We leave it up to the individual pilots to decide using their computers in the planes.

This was totally needless, and totally socialistic...just like their computer “models” for AGW.


58 posted on 04/24/2010 11:47:12 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: SmartInsight

I know, but that opening was too good to resist.


59 posted on 04/24/2010 11:53:32 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Stoat

I’m thinking big money...billions and billions. Soros and Obama’s handlers.


60 posted on 04/25/2010 12:20:31 AM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "I support his [McCain] position on immigration.")
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