In order to prevent year-2050 hurricanes this winter, why not suffer in a cold house while you make chairs out of your firewood?

Can I keep warm and be green? | Environment | The Observer

In the summer your home's daily rate of carbon dioxide emissions skips along at an average of 7.9kg. In the winter it weighs in at 16.32kg per day. Keeping the home fires burning is a costly business.
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It was all quite cosy until analysts, such as Nick Grant and Alan Clarke of the Sustainable Building Association (aecb.net), had a root around the issue of burning trees for heat. Their report, Biomass: A Burning Issue, pours cold water on the sustainable flames. They argue that trees are too valuable to burn, as trees absorb emissions even into old age, and that when they are given the chop they should be turned into furniture that locks in the carbon rather than burned (the combustion process was found to be similar to burning coal).