I do not intend to mock you Wizard. But according to this article in Scientific American magazine says these fires are good for the climate.
Mysterious stabilization of methane may buy time in race to stop global warming. Levels of greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than CO2 should be rising but aren't.
In case you can not tell, I love this magazine.
This is just on study at ground level, if they go higher in the atmosphere I think they will be very surprised to find what is going on up there.
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