It's funny how the article portrays this as a key driver of climate change, when in fact natural gas displacing coal has significantly _reduced_ US carbon emissions over the last 20 years!
Countries who don’t rely on methane gas (there’s no need to call it natural gas) have substantially lower co2 emissions.
So yes methane gas is a big driver of climate change.
Countries who use coal have even more emissions. 20% of US power generation comes from coal even now. More natural gas now, displacing coal, means less total emissions, even ignoring the particulate and mercury pollution from coal. So right now, natural gas reduces CO2 emissions!