Methane is a very potent green house gas. It is converted to carbon dioxide to ease its overall effect on global warming. This process is known as :
Blocking
Ceiling
Flaring
Stooping
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UPSC CAPF – 2014
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Methane flaring is a process where methane (typically waste gas like natural gas from oil/gas extraction, landfills, or wastewater treatment) is burned. Burning methane converts it primarily into carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor. While CO2 is also a greenhouse gas, methane has a much higher global warming potential (GWP) than CO2 over relevant time scales (e.g., GWP of methane is about 25-28 times that of CO2 over 100 years). Therefore, converting methane to CO2 through flaring reduces the overall warming impact compared to releasing the same amount of methane into the atmosphere.