What happened to the oil and gas released at Deepwater Horizon?

The Gulf of México is a very large body of water and for most of us thousands of miles away. With all of the scandal presently occupying the public about the papers, the politicians and the policemen, it is easy to forget that for three months just more than a year ago the Deepwater Horizon’s well leaked what turned out to be more than four million barrels of gas, oil and similar hydrocarbon substances into the Gulf of México. What has become of it?

Do we understand where we are?

For the time being it seems the world is no longer worried about the environment. The IPCC and other bodies are re-writing their explanations and predictions about climate change. Perhaps they will now be balanced – a fault or quality that some detected in “the Energy Age”. For now, in an effort to provide a balanced explanation of anthropogenic climate change the scientists are relatively silent, as though they are learning a new language and are afraid to speak it until they perfected it in all its nuances.