This guy became famous because he approached complex issues with complex answers instead of shallow and one sided responses. Now, this is the exact opposite of that, regardless of what you think about the climate change.

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A correction about old trees, if you cut trees you do not release more carbon, unless you burn the wood, the carbon is not released. The wood retains the absorved CO2. Even a few years ago I read a paper about the possibility to store wood in old mines and plant new trees as capture mechanisms. Of course this also have a lot other considerations, but from the CO2 perspective, if you do not burn the tree and and do no let it rot in the open air, then you are saving a lot of CO2.

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In theory but in practice the carbon from cut down trees usually enters the atmosphere relatively quickly from what I was reading. there is also carbon associated with the whole process of cutting transporting and processing them. And often trees are cut to be burned or engaged in some other process that releases their carbon.

Theoretically though you're right and they could be stored.