Why natural gas is worse for the climate than you think
You may have heard that burning natural gas is better for the climate than coal. And in some ways it’s true. Burning natural gas releases about half the amount of carbon dioxide as coal for the same amount of energy.
However, its production leaks huge amounts of methane –a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after its release. Methane leaks from oil and gas production are the second largest source of methane emissions, after agriculture.
For more information check out BBC Future Planet's Towards Net Zero series.
Script and narration by Jocelyn Timperley
Animation by Adam Proctor
