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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    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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      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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      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