Things you can do with a jet fighter in the Swiss Alps.
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Read this article by Mark Newton. This gets murkier and sillier by the day.
Late addition: From the comments at the linked site:
I enjoy most any mix of science and mountaineering — part of why I so like Mark Bowen's Thin Ice, his book about climatologist Lonnie Thompson's remarkable work documenting global warming in high-altitude glaciers.
I am sitting at the window seat of the Alitalia flight. It is flying over the Italian alps near Milan, few minutes away from landing.
Climate change has been blamed for a lot of things, sometimes not entirely based on the scientific evidence. But this is a first, at least to me:
From today's Guardian:
Incredible. Here's a high quality video of the French airforce: http://hvattum.net/2006/09/18/the-chase-french-mirage/
Totally awesome...Where's that damn barf-bag....
Whee!
How many avalanches did this flyboy trigger to make his video?
Amazingly cool! What I want to know is, who did the music?
Jeff: the song is "Ameno" by a group called Era. Here's a YouTube video of the song:
Thrilling.
When I took my Mountain Flying Endorsement, they left out most of that. Actually quite a bit of it was to expressly warn us not to get into those situations.
Several tens of thousands of horsepower do make a difference.
I'm of two minds about that video. It is rather neat. But all the time I was watching it, I kept remembering the flyboys who killed 20 people in Italy by flying into the cable of of ski-lift.