A reserve spanning 6,000 square miles of sanctuary from Point Arena in Mendocino County south to Point Añ;o Nuevo in San Mateo County stores 9 million metric tons of carbon on the surface of the seafloor, according to released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
The amount of carbon found sitting on the seafloor's first four inches equates to the CO2 emissions generated by 7.3 million gas-powered vehicles driven for one year or expended to power 6.4 million homes for a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agencies' greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator.
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