Please let's abandon the term "natural gas" (which sounds so nice and warm and, um, natural) and adopt the more descriptive name methane (1 carbon + 4 hydrogens = CH4). Methane is a very efficient greenhouse gas, much more effective than carbon dioxide (CO2). I heat my house and water with methane, as little as possible.
The scariest thing about methane is that a lot of it is leaking from pipelines and production fields. (Coal is demonized as a contributor to climate change, but its insignificant vapor pressure means that at least it doesn't leak into the atmosphere in significant amounts). Ronald Reagan was right, for once, in saying that cow's farts (methane) were causing global warming. The Union of Concerned Scientists published an article about "natural gas" not being the answer to global warming.
But first things first: forget about "natural gas", an advertising pitch from the carbon industry, and let's call it METHANE.
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