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.
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.
There is no possible weather phenomenon that can selectively extract a gas from water, contain it at sea level, much less concentrate it over hundreds of square miles of water, and deliver it over a hundred miles to land.
Are you imagining the low pressure eye of a hurricane acting like a vacuum sweeper sucking up a giant deadly cloud of methane (without the lightning in the hurricane such as there was in Emily, Katrina, and Rita igniting it) and delivering it to a city? But the air inside the eye is descending and being exchanged into the ascending air of the eye wall. If methane was coming up into the eye from the sea, it would get sucked up into the up-currents of the eye wall.
All of the air (and any gasses such as methane it contains) in the eye is
constantly being exchanged and flowing out of the hurricane. If it weren't, the low pressure area would cease to be low pressure and the storm would stop.
There have been ships supposedly sunk by being directly over a methane outgassing but that's about it.