Can we bury enough wood to slow climate change?

Scientific American quotes Holly Jean Buck in an article about wood vaulting, also known as wood burial or biomass burial. This process — burying logs, branches, wood chips and sawdust — could potentially store more than 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year and decrease global warming by more than half a degree Fahrenheit, according to a recent study led by Cornell University. Buck, who was not involved in the study, says while there are some potential obstacles to wood vaulting, there are fewer compared with large direct-air-capture machines. “What if the answer was just digging a hole and putting some wood in there?” she said. “A kindergartner could figure that out.”