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It has been suggested that the accumulated CO2 release from naturally caused forest fires throughout the ages has released many more times the CO2 into the atmosphere than the total amount of CO2 released by man since the dawn of modern man.
Why wasn't the climate impacted then?
This is an article that touches on the subject. There is something quite interesting about the study, and the matter of follow up to it's implications.
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - U.S. Fires Release Enormous Amounts of Carbon Dioxide - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
Because when a forest burns, the subsequent new forest growth in the coming decades sequesters the carbon that was released by the initial forest fire. This is carbon cycle 101 here.