The world is still full of people who understand Physics, but never use it for anything, it would seem.
The problem with inductive charging is that the chargers are "dumb", they do not know whether a device is charging or not, and therefore consume just as much power creating an unused magnetic field 24X7 whether there is a device in that field absorbing power or not. It would be possible to create an inductive charger with a "start" button which would shut itself down and cease generating the magnetic field when the device was charged, but none of you would buy it, as some of the convenience results from not having such a button.
The older "linear" wall wart chargers with transformers were also "dumb", in the sense that they also consumed power when not charging a device, as long as they were still sitting in a receptacle, as the transformer primary winding was connected to the AC. They began to be replaced with smaller and lighter transformerless smart chargers about 2012. Such chargers monitor the level of charge in the device and shut off the charger when it is topped off, or the device disconnected. Although they still require a wired device connection, such chargers are energy consumption champions, very efficient compared to inductive charging or linear chargers.
For those of you with "convenient" multiple inductive chargers per device, congratulations, you have the highest energy consumption of any mobile device users. Likewise those oh-so-convenient combination AC/USB receptacle-type power sources are linear transformer type chargers that are on all the time, whether wired devices are charging or not.
The champions of low energy consumption are the transformerless wall warts that shut themselves down when the device is topped off. Period. Lest you think that this does not matter, measurements of the grid consumption by type of device disclose that the grid consumption today is about 18% mobile devices and other battery charging applications such as electric vehicles. The mix is telling as more than 99% of the charger power consumption is in handheld devices (smartphones and tablets and e-readers), the remaining fraction of 1% includes laptops, portable power tools, appliances, and battery EVs. Which means that in a USA which consumes approximately 10 terawatt hours of power per day (2016 EIA figure), mobile devices consume 1.8 terawatt hours, from a power grid that in 2016 was still 65% fossil power, 18% nuclear, 14% renewables, and 3% "other carbon producing energy sources". (EIA and IEEE sources.) In terms of carbon emissions, mobile devices (the vast majority being smartphones) are responsible for spewing 328 million metric tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere per day (EIA figures again). (For the whole world, multiply the US figure by four.)
If you care about carbon emissions, choose wired charging from a smart charger. Also, never leave an inductive charger plugged in unless you are using it.