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The Antarctic Ice cap is currently expanding in both mass and extent . . . It just set a record today for largest ice  on this date. The Grrenland Ice Cap has been very slowly receding and has not accelerated in recent times. The Arctic ice cap is doing what it has been doing for centuries and...

According to Grrenpeace USA, the Koch family has, since 1997, funded the AGW denial machine to he tune of $67m. Greenpeace, on the other hand, generates something south of $500m anually.  And Greenpeace, while it is the poster kiddie for the transnational environmental industry, is by no means...

Global Warming, I mean Climate Change, actually I mean Extreme  Weather is now passe, used up, lost its juice and it is time for the  multi $Billion dollar International Eco Greenie Industry to invent  a new scam to keep the rubes petrified and the money flowing. I give you Al Gore's next great...

well if you want consensus . . . 100% of climate models have failed to predict what is actually happening to the climate. Because as everyone knows, consensus is real science.

You can believe in the global warming/climate change/extreme weather/Ack! We are all gonna die eco greenie fear mongering, or you can buy long underwear so you are ready for what's coming...

Updates from the Brick Brain Canada received a bilateral cost estimate from the F-35 Joint Program Office on 7 June 2013.  The bilateral sustainment cost estimate provided to Canada showed a significant year-over-year decrease in cost, in the order of 12%.  However, this 12% reduction...

Dreams are wonderful. Everyone should have an impossible one.

Answers for the curious. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/29/al-gores-reality-minions-think-the-north-pole-is-melting-except-thats-not-a-photo-of-the-north-pole/

How much of this is the helicopter performance vs the software/mission equipment?

Wherever it is, nice time lapse. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/np2013/2013-cam2.mov

Ahh my bad . . . Sun, beer, BBQ and typing  smashup. Should be RCC,  although I think now they are called Joint Rescue Coordination Centres.

In related news, four guys trying to save the world from climate change are attempting to row the North West Passage and having some difficulty. http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/ Kinda looks like trying hard but not making much progress. They seemed surprised by Arctic Weather. Bet they would...

Must be getting a lot colder  25 years ago it was open ocean in May, not just some melt water on top of 10 feet of ice.

Well done, very, very well done. Kudos to 424 people for making the mission happen. Pros, one and all. Many thanks.

That is quite the article, well worthy of a Canadian journalist or even a series of breathless, full investigative programs on the CBC. I am sure they can get Wheeler or Sprey back to offer their doomsday blatherings. As a story,  the tail hook issue is about three years old and was then and...

Back in the FN era, recoil protection for a heavy range day was two aspirin with breakfast coffee. Come to think of it, that was the same solution to a day of bumping a heavy rucksack around. Lightweight, effective and very easy  :nod:

For Normandy.  Terry Copp is the best.  He has a series of books following the Canadian Army from Normandy to Germany. http://www.amazon.ca/books/dp/0978344146 If you go to Normandy there is a guide who knows a lot about Canadian battlefields, including where you can still dig up WW2...

Norway is in. The Netherlands are in. Now, so are the Italians. "Rome, July 16 – A majority of Italy's Senate approved the plans to buy F-35 jet fighters in a vote Tuesday but said future purchases should be approved by parliament. The controversial purchase passed by a vote of 202 in favour...

The German reporting on the same story . . . "Defense contractor EADS appears to have cut corners in its construction of the Eurofighter jet for the German military. The government faces billions in additional costs, but it doesn't want taxpayers to find out until after federal election this...