05 May 2018

Will Arctic Ice Melt Entirely Away this Year?

  Arctic sea ice is at a record low for this time of year. Bering Sea ice was mostly gone in April making it reasonable to wonder how far the Arctic ice cap will shrink. Very likely this will be another modern era record setting year. There is also modern carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any time in the past 800,000 years with that greenhouse gas reaching a significant 410 ppm level.

Gemini Said That Even After Nancy Grace Roman ST Just 12 percent of the Observable Universe Will Have Been Observed

 I asked Gemini about what area of space the new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will see. I asked if Hubble and Webb hadn't already s...