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Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.com

Your Legacy Rex: T-minus-162
October 12, 2016 at 8:47 AM
Rex Tillerson Rex.W.Tillerson@ExxonMobil.com
Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com, Suzanne McCarron Suzanne.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com, Max Schulz
max.schulz@exxonmobil.com

Dear Rex Tillerson, will this be your legacy?

Carbon dioxide levels race past troubling milestone

by NOAA ScienceDaily October 5, 2016 Bit.ly/SciDaily5Oct16 .

The race towards greater warming

What's more troubling, says Tans, is that the rate of CO2
increase is more than 100 times faster than anything
observed in the ice core record that goes back 800,000
years. This will continue as long as fossil fuel
consumption remains at its current high level worldwide.
For most of human evolution, CO2 levels hovered around
278 ppm, helping to maintain the global climate in a
relatively stable state conducive to agriculture and the
growth of human populations. That all changed starting
in the 1850s with massive deforestation around the
world. Then in the 1950s, a dramatic increase in the
burning of fossil fuels -- coal to make electricity and
steel, oil for vehicles and manufacturing -- vastly
accelerated the rate of CO2 being pumped into the
atmosphere.
"About 85% of all fossil fuel consumption since the start
of the industrial revolution took place during my
lifetime," said Tans.