Ash from the erupting Icelandic volcano halted a single flight over Greenland today, but the most of it was expected to blow north of Scandinavia and disrupt few, if any, flights over Europe.

AMONG the phrases you really, really do not want to hear from climate scientists are: “that really shocked us,” “we had no idea how bad it was,” and “reality is well ahead of the climate models”.

A Norwegian seal-hunting ship with 13 crew sprang a leak in stormy weather off eastern Greenland this morning, and a reconnaissance aircraft and a sea rescue ship were being sent to the area, the Norwegian sea rescue service said.