Considering wildfires account for up to an estimated 20% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions scientists have warned that the increase in the number of extreme wildfires could result in a major increase in CO₂emissions. Meaning that keeping the temperature rise below the goal of 2C will be much harder and there will be serious climate change implications such as sea level rise, droughts and wildfires. An atmospheric scientist said the reasons for this are that forest fires “first lead to significant reduction of forests that suck in CO₂ from the atmosphere and the second loss is they…