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President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Mr. Rex W. Tillerson Exxon Mobil Corporation 5959 Las Colinas Blvd. Irving, Texas 75039 Re: Warm Ocean Causing Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Mass Loss Dear President Obama and Mr. Tillerson,
Few words are needed to explain. I will only remind you: You can be modern day Charles Grant.
If you allow this to continue by expanding the carbon infrastructure, humanity is doomed. We must quickly begin to abandon fossil fuels You must take bold, courageous action Its time you create your legacy Reduce the infrastructure Retire the refineries
President Obama and Mr. Tillerson June 17, 2013 Page 3 of 3 "Changes in basal melting are helping to change the properties of Antarctic bottom water, which is one component of the ocean's overturning circulation," said author Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. "In some areas it also impacts ecosystems by driving coastal upwelling, which brings up micronutrients like iron that fuel persistent plankton blooms in the summer." The study found basal melting is distributed unevenly around the continent. The three giant ice shelves of Ross, Filchner and Ronne, which make up two-thirds of the total Antarctic ice shelf area, accounted for only 15 percent of basal melting. Meanwhile, fewer than a dozen small ice shelves floating on "warm" waters (seawater only a few degrees above the freezing point) produced half of the total melt water during the same period. The scientists detected a similar high rate of basal melting under six small ice shelves along East Antarctica, a region not as well known because of a scarcity of measurements. The researchers also compared the rates at which the ice shelves are shedding ice to the speed at which the continent itself is losing mass and found that, on average, ice shelves lost mass twice as fast as the Antarctic ice sheet did during the study period. "Ice shelf melt doesn't necessarily mean an ice shelf is decaying; it can be compensated by the ice flow from the continent," Rignot said. "But in a number of places around Antarctica, ice shelves are melting too fast, and a consequence of that is glaciers and the entire continent are changing as well." Imagery related to this release is online at: http://bit.ly/nasa-ice-shelf-june-13
Whitney Clavin 818-354-4673 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov J.D. Harrington 202-358-5241 Headquarters, Washington j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia 301-614-5883 Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. maria-jose.vinasgarcia@nasa.gov
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