A Rocking Review

The most recent ice age may have ended, but there is still a lot of ice remaining in Antarctica and Greenland. Here’s a little more about the Antarctic ice, who lives around it, how it behaves, and why we might care. We’ll talk about the warming effect of rising CO₂ in unit 12; for now, just note that we are raising CO₂ in the air, and it does have a warming influence, based on fundamental physics discovered in part by the Air Force for military applications.