Climate Change

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Science recently published this article in which they admit that scientists know next to nothing about the role of methane in global warming/changing/cooling.

LOL... nope.  Scientists have never said that.  Your erroneous misinterpretation is absurd.

Methane, however, is produced in tiny quantities, hardly likely to have any effect on climate...

Again... no.  Methane is not released in "tiny" quantities.  Atmospheric methane release is a much bigger problem than atmospheric
carbon dioxide release, since methane's impact is 34 times greater than CO₂ over a 100-year period on climate.  While not as long-lasting
in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, methane is much more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat.

Methane also has the potential to create a feedback loop in global warming. That is, as Earth’s climate warms, methane that's frozen
in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils—or marine sediments—may be released into the atmosphere.   It does not last long in the
atmosphere (on the order of years, rather than centuries as with carbon dioxide). But its release will cause more warming, which
will cause more methane to be released, replenishing that in the atmosphere.....  causing more warming and more methane release
and so on.

But, and here's the shocker, it has the opposite effect and actually helps cool the atmosphere...

Methane gas "cools" the atmosphere?  I'm still laughing!  (Or perhaps you're making a joke?)