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Fossil methane
(lemmy.world)
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.
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)
I mean, burning methane does significantly reduce its greenhouse gas potency.
But people are rarely just releasing raw methane into the atmosphere
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).
Yeah I was mostly poking fun at idea that someone would see this and get the entirely opposite message OP intended:
I half expected to come back to a whole pile of downvotes lol