Permanent Wood Sequestration: The Solution to the Global Carbon Dioxide Problem

Abstract

Seeing the woods for the trees: The global CO2 problem can only be solved by the introduction of a permanent carbon sink based on using natural photosynthesis. In the “wood growth and burial process”, humans produce biomass, especially wood, for it to be later removed from the global carbon cycle by burial under anaerobic conditions (e.g. on the bottom of emptied open pits). Moreover, the buried wood is a deposited good and potentially available for future use.

Quantifying the impact of forest management on the carbon balance of the forest-wood product chain: A case study applied to even-aged oak stands in France

“…Burial of wood has been suggested as mean of permanent wood sequestration by Scholz and Hasse (2008), although this solution does not consider the effect of material substitution through the use of HWPs over the whole carbon cycle (Köhl and Frühwald, 2009). While disposing wood products in landfills increases the HWP carbon pool, it also has a major drawback.…”

A Preliminary Assessment of the Effects of Climate Variability on Agulu Lake, Anambra State, Nigeria

“…A critical and perhaps the dominant global environmental problem in the last three decades is global warming resulting in global climate change [5]. Climate change refers to any change in climate overtime whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity [6].…”

Terrestrial sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2)

“…another suggestion for using biomass for C sequestration is via wood burial. Scholz and Hasse (2008) suggested that wood grown at suitable sites can be permanently buried in open coal pits. They argued that by so doing humans would give back to nature what they have used as fossil fuel, and it may be reused in hundreds or thousands of years time.…”