SCIENCE MARCHES ON – AT 7:38 A.M. ET:  Remember how, last week, the transatlantic flights were cancelled because of a volcanic ash cloud that supposedly was drifting over Britain and Europe?

Well, uh, there's kind of a, well, a rethinking.  It seems – and look, don't tell me this makes you doubt all the global warming stuff.  Why, that's rock solid.  That's...uh...we'll talk about it later.  It seems some mistakes may have been made, as London's Daily Mail reports:

Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.

Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds.

Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 35,000.

However, new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.

The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.

Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted: 'It's obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data.

COMMENT:  But remember, science is infallible, and global warming will engulf the world and destroy everything in its path, and nothing will be the same.  And...

There is a global warming bill up in Congress.  Maybe the members should look at this story and start questioning the weather "models" we're being sold by the Al Gore Corporation.  We saw last week the kind of panic that can be caused by poor data.  That was only a warning to us.

April 26, 2010