From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.

com
Subject:Welcome ExxonKnew Iceberg
Date:July 10, 2017 at 6:36 PM
To:Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com, Jeffrey J. Woodbury jeff.j.woodbury@exxonmobil.com,
William (Bill) M. Colton William.M.Colton@ExxonMobil.com, Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com,
Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com
Cc: Susan K. Avery, PhD savery@whoi.edu

Dear Darren, Jeff, Bill, Suzanne and Max,

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Youd better blog about your unique distinction of having a baby iceberg named after you: ExxonKnew!
This is not a common dream, rather climate reality, thanks to procrastination, deception and subterfuge.
.
Thank you for your contribution. Frankly, given how you act, it should be named ExxonKnowsBetter"?
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Sincerely yours,
.
Doug Grandt

The ExxonKnew Iceberg: Name It After the 'Climate Criminals,' Says Group
'We need to make sure their role in causing the climate crisis is not forgotten,' reads a petition from 350.org
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by Andrea Germanos | CommonDreams | July 10, 2017 | Bit.ly/Dream10Jul17

Climate campaigners have a name proposed for a huge iceberg researchers say
is about to break off from an ice shelf in Antarctica: the #ExxonKnew Iceberg.

The calving, as the break-off is called, is happening on the Larsen C ice shelf in
West Antarctica. According to the U.K.-based Project Midas, which is keeping
track of the rift's progress, it could be one of the largest icebergs on record.

According to 350.org, the soon-to-be Delaware-sized iceberg presents an

excellent opportunity to remind the public of Exxon's role in fueling climate
change.

"With one of the world's biggest ice shelves at a breaking point, this
destruction should bear the name of its greatest perpetrator: Exxon," said
Aaron Packard, 350.org's Climate Impact Coordinator. "People deserve to
understand the devastation of Exxon's decades of climate deception, and
realize fossil fuel companies for the climate criminals they are."

The group's petition (http://act.350.org/letter/exxonknew-iceberg/) to the U.S.

The group's petition (http://act.350.org/letter/exxonknew-iceberg/) to the U.S.
National Ice Centerthe body that names icebergssays the fossil fuel
company "deceived the public, misled their shareholders, and robbed
humanity of a generation's worth of time to reverse climate change," referring
to the ExxonKnew scandal.

"We need to make sure their role in causing the climate crisis is not forgotten,"
says the petition, which the group says has garnered over ten thousand
signatures. 350.org also posted this video to accompany the petition:
http://act.350.org/letter/exxonknew-iceberg/

Writing Friday, Project Midas said that "the iceberg remains attached to the
shelf by a thin band of ice," adding: "When it calves, the Larsen C Ice Shelf will
lose more than 10 percent of its area to leave the ice front at its most retreated
position ever recorded; this event will fundamentally change the landscape of
the Antarctic Peninsula."

Still, "we do not need to press the panic button for Larsen C," says Helen
Amanda Fricker, a glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography:

Large calving events such as this are normal processes of a healthy

ice sheet, ones that have occurred for decades, centuries, millennia
on cycles that are much longer than a human or satellite lifetime.

At the same time, she noted:

There is plenty going on that merits concern: Antarctic ice shelves

overall are seeing accelerated thinning, and the ice sheet is losing
mass in key sectors of Antarctica.

Added Jonathan Kingslake, an assistant professor at the Lamont-Doherty

Earth Observatory: "Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula is linked to human
activity and probably triggered the collapse of two more northerly ice shelves."
Larsen A and Larsen B collapsed in 1996 and 2002, respectively, after icebergs
broke off.

As Packard sees it, "The Antarctic Peninsula is a window into a distressingly

plausible, not-so-distant, future where the relatively stable climate the earth
has thrived on enters meltdown mode. "