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Fossil methane (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/climatememes@lemmy.world
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Yes, I know it's not technically just methane, but methane is its primary constituent.

"Fossil gas" is also probably a suitable term, but I like "fossil methane" because it gets that spooky chemical name benefit.

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

This is a poor meme because it implies that burning methane reduces it's greenhouse gas potency by 40x.

(CH4 + 2 O2 -> 2 H2O + CO2)

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I mean, burning methane does significantly reduce its greenhouse gas potency.

    But people are rarely just releasing raw methane into the atmosphere

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Production and transport of fossil gas actually often does exactly that and there are/were satellites tasked with tracking methane emissions (there are also loads of natural fossil sources, sometimes their leaking is anthropogenic).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I was mostly poking fun at idea that someone would see this and get the entirely opposite message OP intended:

    Methane worse than CO2?

    BURN ALL THE NATURAL GAS

    ....

    Global warming solved!

    I half expected to come back to a whole pile of downvotes lol

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