Uncle Al wrote:
If Al Gore wants to save the world from CO2, why doesn't he demand
Arab methane be injected back into the wells to increase liquid flow
rather than being burned in the desert to light up thousands of square
miles (visible from satellite at night)?

The heat trapped on our planet by methane's greenhouse effect
during it's lifetime in the atmosphere exceeds the heat generated
by burning the methane as a fuel by orders of magnitude. Better
to burn methane and change it into CO2, because, molecule for
molecule, CH4 is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.