You made me laugh out loud. Well done.
Chances are the burning you saw in Africa was done in the cool season, to reduce the build up of fire hazards and catastrophic fires in the dry season. This results in less CO2 being released overall. It's measurable. The same thing is done here in the Northern Territory. Undertaking managed, cool season hazard reduction fires results in carbon credits which are tradable. The land is rejuvenated. The buffalo love it.
We're familiar with hot season, catastrophic fires and the CO2 they release. To be avoided. Due to climate change, they're happening in cool seasons in some places. Perhaps somewhere near you?
Your writing indicates you are an educated person. I would suggest expanding your reading a bit over the climate change debate. Let me quickly add that hardly anyone "denies" climate change, it has happened for 4 billion years. But the extent of man's contribution to that change deserves serious discussion by serious people. Much like any critical review of the worldwide response to the pandemic, your country and mine have done everything possible to shutdown any such debate of climate for generation. The persecutors of Galileo could hardly have been more diligent.
It is worth a bit of reflection that the current climate change mitigation industry is estimated to represent a 2.5 to 3 trillion USD annual investment worldwide. It is growing rapidly. Is it any wonder that any dissenting voices are crushed?
These are four excellent titles that I have read and which I would strongly suggest you read as you measure your certitude of man's culpability.
"The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud" by Lawrence Solomon (2008) It is a collection of interviews with highly credentialed scientists who hold that dissenting view. I should add, in keeping with my comments above, both the author and those he interviewed were broadly attacked by the climate industry when the book was published in 2008. Read it and draw your own conclusions.
"Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science" by Ian Pilmer. Plimer is an Australian geologist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne, so you may already be familiar with him. He too was vigorously attacked by the climate industry for lacking rigor in his research. I would suggest draw your own conclusions.
"The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change" by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder (2007) This work focuses on cosmic radiation as a far more likely culprit for temperature and weather patterns currently blamed on CO2. It is a tough slog from a readability perspective, but these are regularly peer reviewed authors. The climate industry essentially chose to simply ignore this work.
"Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming" edited by Patrick J. Michaels (2005) Michaels, a climatologist and former research professor at the University of Virginia, has a PhD in ecological climatology and contributed to IPCC reports before becoming a prominent skeptic. He and his thesis drew particular ire most believe because he is perceived as a traitor to the industry.
Finally, if you really have curiosity in testing your certainty, I highly recommend googling some of the articles written by Richard S. Lindzen. He is a highly credentialed Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at MIT. He too has been the subject of criticism, but it would seem the technical complexity of his work was considered deterrent enough by the industry to mitigate him being widely read.
I do not know the answer to the question of the causes of climate change. I will note that I am suspicious of any consensus backed by a huge industry. I am even more suspicious of a theory where every hurricane, flood, or tornado is seized upon by the political class and their unquestioning followers as an example of man made climate change. I suppose it is easy with a population that knows no history. For instance, the most powerful and deadly hurricane to strike the US occurred in Galveston in 1900 killing as many as twelve thousand people. I am made further suspicious as "bomb cyclones" have made their bitter cold presence felt in North America over the last decade and "global warming" was quickly erased from the narrative to be replaced by "climate change" almost exclusively.
I do know that we will never understand any number of things when government, acting exactly as did the Catholic Church in 17th century silenced Galileo and his theory of Heliocentrism. The quickly unraveling of the certainty of our response to Covid should be another cautionary indicator.
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