[aruanan]

The post that I responded to inquired about the toxicity of elements of this oil spill, not to the mortality rates of intravenous embolism.

But thank you for the useless data just the same.

You missed the point entirely, the point being that all that methane is not going to come onto land in one big mass. If it did, it would kill everything that breathed air that it overcame, but that's never going to happen. Just as a very small quantity of air is sufficient to kill every living human on earth if administered in the right way, but, like your methane gas scenario, it's never going to happen.

[chris37]

Oh. I see.

What if a hurricane pulls the methane up out of the water and then pushes it onto land?

Did you see the video of boiling surf in Pensacola? That’s methane.

Do you know how much methane has been released into the gulf in the past 71 days? Sure, the water is holding much of it down at this time, but what if that changes?

Never say never.