Britannia Radio

Now what does this remind you of...

7:30am

The evidence is now very strong that the panic about volcanic ash over Britain which closed British airspace for five days, caused a £1.3 billion airline shutdown and left 150,000 Britons stranded was completely unfounded. The Mail on Sunday reports that the information on which the British Meteorological Office based its assertion that Britain was shrouded by a dangerous layer of ash was

...mainly derived not from satellite observations of where ash was visible but from theoretical models, so showed the entire region that might be affected by minute concentrations of ash dispersed by weather systems. Across most of this, the ash was so thin as to be invisible.

‘Scientific’ assertions based upon theoretical computer models which produce merely speculation based on ‘might’ and ‘if’, and which actually runs totally contrary to evidence-based, demonstrable reality? Ring any bells?

Clue: another ‘scientific’ claim which originated in the Met Office about a catastrophic development in the atmosphere...