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“We have to be careful as a society to think that we can continue to burn fossil fuels and emit CO2 in a sort of business-as-usual scenario and just offset it later,” said Nina Friggens, a research fellow in plant soil ecology at the University of Exeter and one of the study’s authors.

But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.

“It’s a haystack of dry fuels that are just waiting to burn,” he said.

������ever the cause, it was common for much of the land in California to burn about once a decade.

Their job was to keep their eyes on the downward slope on the other side of the ridge, which wasn’t supposed to burn.