Yea but the thing about forest fire carbon emissions is that they’re renewable. The burned land will start growing new vegetation almost immediately which is a massive carbon sink. It will return to it’s pre-fire carbon sequestration levels in a few decades.
Carbon from oil and gas isn’t coming from a recently sequestered source, it’s been in the ground for tens to hundreds of millions of years.
If there is a durable increase in forest fire activity then the forests won’t be able to resequester what they held before because there will be less overall forest growth.
Moreover, the timing matters here. Those years with more carbon in the atmosphere drive temperatures higher for some number of years in to the future. Even if they eventually come down, the climate is a highly path dependent system.
When a massive fire like this happens carbon is released at a vastly faster rate than it is recaptured again. It will take many years for trees to grow to this size again.
