See how on the ball we the government are? Vote Labour and keep the UK super-dooper safe!
People went bankrupt trying to pay for overpriced hotel rooms during this., and were profoundly inconvenienced.
Sounds like a completely needless destruction of many lives.
Your government at work. See also: Swine Flu scare, Hawaiian Tsunami, etc...
“Sounds like a completely needless destruction of many lives.”
The Left has an excellent track record doing that!
Looks like you were right about all this.
But we should trust their “computer models” for man-caused global warming forecasts decades in the future.
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Are the same people running this connected to the Global Warming, oh, excuse me, climate change group? Sounds like the same excellent standards of operation.
lol
The clouds showed up very clearly in the sat images.....not sure what this article is talking about.
They were quite obvious.
That said, I did come to the conclusion a blanket ban was over-the-top.
There was plenty of free air in between the clouds. It basically came in waves, leaving lots of time they could have flown even avoiding all the ash.
Honestly, I am of the opinion better safe than have one accident, but it now looks like the blanket ban was a bit too much.
Good observations. I’ll remember them for the next time a lib goes on about “Even if Global Warming is wrong, what harm could it do to clean up the planet, huh, huh???”
I have been wondering why there were/are no photos of ash covered airports in Europe.
What a bunch of ash-holes. I guess the best we can hope for is that a landslide will follow the volcanic eruption.
Yeah, OK...
But if a plane falls out of the sky there will be no end of hell to pay.
They did it for “an abundance of caution”
Can you imagine what would have happened if they hadn’t grounded the planes and a few of them would have crashed?
It’s easy to have 20-20 hindside vision.
Also, for some who think a cloud is the same as the ash: Some articles said the ash contained SO2.
“Pilots can never fly through clouds of volcanic ash because these bits of pulverized rock and glass can melt in aircraft engines, causing power loss. The ash can damage aircraft electronic, hydraulic, ventilation, and data systems. Sulfur dioxide, another product of volcanoes also carried within the ash clouds following an eruption, is corrosive to aircraft. “
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-15-02.html
Somebody got rich. Who was it?
Not needless. It helps to bankrupt the EU moving us all closer to the global economic system and it provided a convenient excuse for 0bama, Merkel and Sarkozy to cancel going to Kaczynski’s funeral. Don’t want to PO Putin ya know.
I seem to recall that there were pictures of the interior of some european F-18 engines that had been severely damaged by the airborne ash cloud. Granted that commercial jet engines don’t require the same tolerances as military aircraft, nor do they operate at such high temperatures, but I for one have no problem with a temporary ban of flight operations when there’s a good chance of those flights, carrying civilian passengers, encountering highly abrasive volcanic ash. Better to deal with the PR for cancelled flights, than to explain to a court of inquiry why eight of your planes went down due to siezed turbines because you ignored the risk.
I’ve got this little theory banging around in my head, and it seems to me that the Western powers that be are trying to take down the middle-class. Every chance they get to take some of them down a notch or ten, they’re going to do it.
How else do you explain things like this? They could tell in a matter of hours if the air was clean or not. They didn’t care to check it out.
Snap of the fingers, tens of thousands of people were cut off and under a severe financial strain (in some instances).
Here we go again with another "dry run."
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?