Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 09:36

Hi Mr. Taterka, After reading through several of your daily journal entries, I was wondering what in what form is the carbon being released in. Furthermore, is any of the carbon being released in the form of crude oil and if so, could this lead to the increased oil drilling in Alaska. Thanks, Sam Blumers

Anonymous

Sam -
Carbon is released from the ground to the water in a huge variety of organic compounds, but it's released to the air as CO2 and methane. Crude oil takes millions of years to from from organic deposits, so that's not something that's going to happen any time soon.
- Mr. T