{"id":537050,"date":"2010-04-21T02:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T06:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5581"},"modified":"2010-04-21T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T06:10:24","slug":"met-office-blasted-for-unnecessarily-triggering-six-day-british-airspace-closure-by-paul-bentley-and-claire-bates-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537050","title":{"rendered":"Met Office blasted for &#8216;unnecessarily&#8217; triggering six-day British airspace closure by Paul Bentley and Claire Bates, Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=165\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Met Office&quot;\">Met Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  The Met Office unnecessarily triggered the six-day closure of British airspace which has cost passengers, airlines and the economy more than \u00a31.5billion, according to senior officials.<br \/>\nA scientific model based on \u2018probability\u2019 rather than fact was used by the government agency to forecast the spread of the volcanic ash cloud, according to critics.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Ruete, the European Commission\u2019s director general of transport, said air traffic authorities should not have imposed a widespread ban.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested the ban should have been restricted to a 20 to 30 mile limit around the volcano in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;The science behind the model we are running at the moment is based on certain assumptions where we do not have scientific evidence. It is a black box in certain areas.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Results of 40 or so European test flights over the weekend, including a British Airways flight on Sunday, suggested the risks were not as high as computer models predicted<\/p>\n<p>None found evidence of any ash in engines, windows or lubrication systems.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: dailymail.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5581\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lqVk9M8EysA1C0wUYj7YeOImwlQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lqVk9M8EysA1C0wUYj7YeOImwlQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lqVk9M8EysA1C0wUYj7YeOImwlQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lqVk9M8EysA1C0wUYj7YeOImwlQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/gxNqSa1X_EQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Met Office The Met Office unnecessarily triggered the six-day closure of British airspace which has cost passengers, airlines and the economy more than \u00a31.5billion, according to senior officials. A scientific model based on \u2018probability\u2019 rather than fact was used by the government agency to forecast the spread of the volcanic ash cloud, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}