How can the carbon dioxide in the athmosphere be reduced?

Answer 1

The carbon cycle moves carbon in and out of the atmosphere in a natural process, so it would not be possible to prevent this. We can prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere through our activities by stopping the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which we do in industry, transport and to generate electricity. To do this we need to switch completely to renewable energy. There are also trials happening to capture the carbon dioxide as it is released from the fossil fuel combustion, but none are successful yet on any large scale.

Answer 2

The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be reduced by decreasing fossil fuel consumption, increasing renewable energy sources, promoting energy efficiency, protecting and restoring forests, and implementing carbon capture and storage technologies. Additionally, individuals can contribute by reducing their own carbon footprint through actions like carpooling, using public transportation, and conserving energy at home.

Answer 3

The main way that carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere is by trees and plants taking in the carbon dioxide to use to make sugars and other plant parts. Trees emit oxygen, and take in CO2 in order for cellular respiration to take place.

Answer 4

Carbon dioxide is being added to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere whenever we burn fossil fuel (coal, oil and natural gas). We burn it mostly to generate electricity, but also for use in transport and industry.

If we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels(slowing our use of electricity, using simpler methods of travel etc) then we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pollution.

Another way is to stop logging and deforestation. Trees and vegetation all over the planet act as a huge carbon dioxide sink. They take in CO2 and give out oxygen. By cutting down so much forest we have reduced this efficiency.

Much forest land has been clear felled to provide pasture for beef cattle. The huge world population wants to eat meat, so there is great demand. Cattle also belch out methane, which is another greenhouse gas, but 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. So if we slowed our demand for red meat, that is another way that greenhouse gases can be reduced.

Answer 5

Photosynthesis. Plants use the carbon atoms from carbon dioxide in the air to build molecules adding to their own mass and release oxygen from carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.

Plants take in CO2 and break it apart, releasing the oxygen and absorbing the carbon in their tissues. 300 million years ago plants did this with a vengeance, and over prolonged periods of time were buried before they completely decayed. This subterranean plant matter evolved into coal and oil deposits.

Other marine organisms incorporate atmospheric carbon into their shells and corals. Much of this carbon ended up as limestone, over millions of years. Other tiny marine creatures known as coccolithophores died and sank over millions of years towards the end of the Cretaceous forming enormous chalk deposits.

So there are numerous ways organisms pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, but all of them take long, long periods of time.

Answer:

We have the ability to make a few different pieces of equipment which will collect carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The first is referred to as a scrubber, which attaches to fossil fuel plants exhaust systems and collects the carbon from the CO2. These scrubbers can be active filters laced with lime which absorb carbon dioxide, or more complex systems such as Polymer membrane gas separators.

Another method we collect carbon dioxide from our atmosphere is through the cooling process. Dry ice is manufactured in this method. It is simply ice formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide.

Modern buildings also absorb carbon dioxide. Cement absorbs this gas just standing there.

Answer:

Trees take the co2 from the air and produce oxygen. They are like humans but the opposite. Humans breathe in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide while trees practically breathe in carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen!

CO2 is also absorbed by the oceans, via the formation of carbonic acid. Plant matter through photosynthesis tends to be the best mechanism for sequestering atmospheric carbon, however.

Answer 6

While there are machines that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere, we currently lack the economic incentive to build and operate such machines on a scale to compete with the billions of tons of CO2 we emit each year.

CO2 is naturally absorbed from the atmosphere via processes that operate on very long time scales--thousands of years. Earth cannot keep pace with us. The best we can hope for is to slow down the rate at which we emit CO2, but even that hope is somewhat faint as there are powerful economic interests opposing such activity.

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A determined effort round the world to plant billions of trees to replace the destroyed forests is the only way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Answer 7

Mostly through the oceans absorption athough the trees and plants help. Before trees and plants that were unlike coral (look it up they are called stromatilites, pardon if I spelled it wrong) and when the ocean wasn't water and was filled with CO2 the stromatilites did the cleaning job for billions of years until the first ice age, AKA snowball Earth. Then they evolved.
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Answer 8

let your country have alot trees and a large forest so that the plants can take in the carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. all of these can help stop global warming.

Answer 9

There are various ways. We can avoid burning.

Answer 10

by growing more and more trees