The oil in the trees is very combustible and would make a great fuel for jets. The smaller "middle storey" plants are even better and it could be that as they released their fumes into the air without doing any useful work (other than setting the trees on fire) that sort of explosion would occur, or have been predicted to. One solution would be get everyone into jet helicopters and run them on farmed tree-oil. The exhaust would provide useful carbon dioxide promoting new tree growth. A real win-win.
Instead they'd rather burn them all straight into the air. God enjoys smoke when done according to His method but surely there's a lot of unclean animals getting incinerated (to save the environment) which generally He does not like? Toads, for example.