A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change | Buried beneath as little as two meters of clay soil for millennia, a log buried some 3,700 years ago retained at least 95 percent of the carbon it drew from the air new studies estimate
A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change
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So you can keep burning coal as long as you bury at least 105% of carbon equivalent in trees.
The way people would go about doing this is they would use giant diesel burning excavators, so…
Fill empty oil wells with algae and you get to burn the oil?
This is going to sound absurd, but if you want to sequester carbon, stop recycling paper and just throw it into the landfill.
As Terry Pratchett pointed out, chopping down trees and burying them is how you would actually sequester carbon, its just no one wants to admit it. (Science of Discworld)
So bottom line, we are still screwed. What a useless report.
I did my archaeology field school in an area of southern Germany that had once been a vast marsh that was formed after the ice age. The meltwater from the glaciers flooded the lowlands and gave way to numerous marshes with stands of trees and meadows scattered amongst them.
Anyway, people lived there during that time and we were digging down to a strata of around 7000-8000 years ago looking for archaeological evidence and data for that era. The trench I was working in hit a buried tree. It was obviously a white birch and looked like one that had fallen into a creek just months ago. Its bark was perfect and it was still woody. My professor dated it to circa 8500 B.C.