@sj_zero
> Coal almost exclusively comes from an era hundreds of millions of years ago called the carboniferous period before any organisms learned to digest cellulose
Huh. I did not know that..
>After that period, wood that would just sit there and sink into coal beds instead gets converted back into CO2 by fungi
... and reabsorbed by growing plants. As long as forests aren't cleared, they can hold carbon indefinitely.