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vents such as wildfires, occurring on a tiny area of the globe, can have a huge impact on the global carbon cycle. This much is plain from investigation of the terrible fires that afflicted Indonesia five years ago.

In 1997–98, the growth rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled, reaching the highest on record. As even casual television viewers could have guessed, a contribution to the increase might have come from the wildfires occurring in Indonesia at that time, which burned for months and were widely shown around the world.