Yes. Seems to be deliberately overlooked when calculating the damage done by natural gas plants. It is only a blink in time from when we saw gas stacks flaring, the open air burning of excess gas. Of course the leaks are totally omitted but not when the public breaths.

One more reason to replace all of our generation with less-polluting renewables. Natural gas was supposed to only be a bridge to the new technologies.

Maybe the bridge needs to be shortened.

"Gas not a bridge. It's a plank."
If renewables were really reliable, Greenpeace would already be using windmill generators and solar panels instead of diesel to propel their ship and motorboats across the oceans.
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Thorium fueled nuclear power plants are the real solution for global warming--and long term energy generation. But trying to hype methane releases as a global warming threat is not just wrong, it is silly.

There are lots of huge methane sources, like methane clathrates in coastal waters, some types of vegetation, and permafrost. But the level of methane in the atmosphere is 0.00017% more than two hundred times lower than CO2. Why? Because methane in the air gets rapidly turned into CO2. So yes, methane is 34 times as much of a greenhouse gas than CO2--for a month or three. (Water is the most potent, and the most prevalent, and the most variable greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but let's not go there.)

(Water is the most potent, and the most prevalent, and the most variable greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but let's not go there.)

@eachus
why not go there?
it's not like it's not studied nor talked about at all... hell, i've personally attempted to share this with people

in fact, Lacis et al 2010 and Lacis et al 2013 both discuss the link between CO2 and water vapor and it's cycle & feedback, which is very, very relevant

and it's not a matter of speculation because Lacis has studied and measured this in multiple publications and you can drag those up anytime you want (even through NASA pubs)

more to the point, it's also been validated and it's something that has been repeatedly discussed here on PO by myself, Thermodynamics, Runrig and quite a few others

it's not like this is speculation, conspiracy or anything else - it's just a matter of some people ignoring the data for whatever reasons