"The wildfires raging along Australia's eastern coast have already pumped around 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere," reports MIT's Technology Review , "further fueling the climate change that's already intensifying the nation's fires ."The article also argues that wildfires are releasing carbon stored in the vegetation dried by warming temperatures."That creates a vicious feedback loop, as the very impacts of climate change further exacerbate it, complicating our ability to get ahead of the problem."