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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Percentage of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in my lifetime (cdn.bsky.app)
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If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)

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[โ€“] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wood is more or less carbon neutral though, the carbon that is released by wood burning is the same carbon that the tree pulled out of the atmosphere to build the wood in the first place. The only extra emissions come from how the wood was gathered and prepared, so if they weren't using diesel trucks to haul the wood and they weren't using chainsaws to cut the trees down then yes, it would be carbon neutral.

[โ€“] LwL@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If the result is deforestation it's not really carbon neutral, that would require another tree to grow in its place. Otherwise oil would be carbon neutral too, since that once came from plants.

The main difference is the sheer amount of energy we use honestly, if we covered all our current needs with wood we'd probably run out of trees faster than they could ever regrow. In that sense coal isn't strictly worse, if we stayed on 17th century level energy consumptiom but used coal instead of wood, we wouldn't have to worry about global warming either.