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The planet has a number of huge carbon sinks, removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The largest is the ocean, as CO2 dissolves. This absorbs roughly 80% of all carbon dioxide.
Other sinks are photosynthesis by vegetation and phytoplankton, and the weathering of silicate rock. For more details, read about the carbon cycle.
Currently, sources of carbon must outweigh the sinks because atmospheric CO2 is increasing globally by roughly 2 parts per million by volume per year, as can be seen in the NOAA measurements of atmospheric CO2. CO2 is even higher in cities and industrial areas, in places where fossil fuels are being burnt in quantity.
The easiest way for us to reduce the carbon dioxide levels is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This is the scientific consensus view, and is the view held by the IPCC, all major scientific bodies and national academies of science around the world.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoPhotosynthesis, the process by which plants make food, decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the carbon dioxide is absorbed to release oxygen as the byproduct.
So afforestation and reforestation will reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Which processes in the carbon cycle decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Plants and trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. The ocean also absorbs carbon dioxide, so much now that it is becoming more acidic.
Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon force?
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Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon source?
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Does clearing a forest increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Yes because trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide and store the carbon.
Carbon dioxide is building up in your atmosphere for two reasons The first is that many of your activities produce carbon dioxide The second reason is that some of your activities limit the amount of?
The amount of carbon dioxide being removed from the atmosphere. (These activities are cutting down and destroying forests.)
Which process increases the amount of oxygen and decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis by green vegetation and forests.
Which processes in the carbon cycle decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Plants and trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. The ocean also absorbs carbon dioxide, so much now that it is becoming more acidic.
Would a forest fire affect the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Forest fires increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as carbon dioxide?
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What atmosphere contains a large amount of carbon Dixie?
Assuming you mean "carbon dioxide", the atmosphere of Venus is made up mainly of carbon dioxide.
Which increases the amount carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon source?
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Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon course?
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Which increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon source?
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Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon force?
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Which increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as a carbon sources?
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Which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acting as carbon source?
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