[Windflier]

"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?

[Madame Dufarge]

Egad, look at the "experts" who precipitated the panic. I knew there had to be at least one AGW nut involved.

"Met Office chairman Robert Napier spent eight years running the Worldwide Fund for Nature. He changed the emphasis of its work from the protection of endangered species to lobbying for tougher climate-change measures."