How do you reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere?

Answer 1

1. Stop burning fossil fuels and use renewable energy instead.
2. Plant more and more trees that is by afforestation.
3. Awareness. Know all the little ways that you can help, like

• Reducing your electricity use by turning appliances off at the wall.
• Don't leave lights on unnecessarily.
• Moderate your use of home cooling and heating.
• Walk to the corner shop.
• Ride a bike, or a bus instead of driving.
• Recycle as much as you can.

More Information:

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is constantly being added and removed from the atmosphere by various processes. This is called the carbon cycle.

Currently, human emissions of CO2 are accumulating in the atmosphere, because the total sources of CO2 are greater than the amount of CO2 being removed by carbon sinks.

The easiest and cheapest way to correct this imbalance is for humans to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere. To do this we need renewable energy instead of energy produced from fossil fuels.

Renewable energy from wind, solar and other sources does not directly remove CO2 from the air. Instead, it replaces fossil fuel power, and this reduces CO2 emissions, which in turn reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Plants, trees and forests take carbon dioxide out of the air. To reduce CO2 levels we can stop deforestation and plant billions of trees all around the world (afforestation).

In addition, there are proposals for removing CO2directly. These include biochar, artificial trees and scrubbing towers, and ocean nourishment. To do all this, we need to begin now.

• By algae-powered, carbon absorbing lamps. The technology is not in use yet, but it is in research. See the link below.
• Provide incentives for industries to reduce carbon emissions...world wide.
• Stop deforestation in 3rd world countries and Tasmania etc.
• Provide incentives for population reduction and sensible use of energy, i.e. big cities all lit up at night.

Plant more trees and plants! Stop cutting down trees without replacing them!

Answer 2

Being a layman, this answer will be only partial until an expert improves it. One way in which the Earth counteracts Carbon Dioxide [CO2] is that when rain occurs, it absorbs and thus flushes some of the CO2 from the air, creating "acidic" rainwater [carbonic acid], which when falling on "basic" [like limestone for example] materials on the Earth's surface, and then the carbonic acid chemically combines with the limestone, destroying the acid. Another way that atmosperic CO2 is removed is that all green [containing chlorophyl]vegetation [grass, farm crops, and trees for example] need and use CO2 [they "inhale" it, and "exhale" Oxygen (O2)] through their leaf surfaces. The chlorophyl, in combination with sunlight [and water and other nutrients from the soil] convert the CO2 to food material within the plant.

Answer 3

Carbon dioxide is vital to life on earth, and it is something we couldn't live without. It is also a greenhouse gas, which keeps the earth warmer than it otherwise would be.

Recently humans have been adding carbon dioxide,which is warming the planet. Some people say that the current warming started about 10,200 years ago. But it is easy to see that, outside natural fluctuations the current warming has only been occurring for fewer than 150 years. If it were associated with a natural cycle as the interglacials are, there would be a solar forcing to support this. The combination of natural radiative forcings during the last 150 years are an order of magnitude less than those of CO2.

Answer 4

To reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, we can decrease our reliance on fossil fuels by promoting renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power. Additionally, we can invest in carbon capture and storage technologies to remove carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes. Afforestation and reforestation efforts can also help by sequestering carbon dioxide through the growth of trees.

Answer 5

High levels of carbon dioxide in the air make the earth warmer. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps the sun's heat rising from the earth.

Answer 6

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which means it will trap the sun's heat. The result is global warming.

Answer 7

by planting trees