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I live in Minnesota and theres no snow at all here!! It's also 40 degrees!!!

Is there a way to take away the air pollutient?? I know we can stop it by riding bike, turning off the tv, ect lol.

But after you do that, is there a way to actually take it out of the air??

2006-12-12 09:11:36 · 3 answers · asked by Answerer 4 in Environment

3 answers

The only real way to take it out of the air is to plant trees or plants. Since we're putting out more and more Carbon Dioxide into the air, and cutting down more and more trees, for developments and such, we're putting out more carbon dioxide than the plants we have can take in. Solution: Plant more plants(seems so simple doesn't it?)That's the reason why ethanol is so much better then oil to burn because ethanol comes from corn, and when you burn it yeah fumes go into the air but the corn you plant to replace the corn you havested puts all that protosynthesis you learn about to work and takes the fumes(CO2) out of the air. And the natural cycle of things is (somewhat) restored.

2006-12-12 09:29:45 · answer #1 · answered by Caity S 4 · 0 0

Sure, in fact it's happening all the time. Grow plants, which absorb CO2 from the air. Then bury the plant matter underground so the carbon doesn't go back into the air. The reason we're having trouble is we're doing too much of the opposite: digging up old buried plants (coal and oil) and burning them which puts the carbon into the air.

2006-12-12 17:21:41 · answer #2 · answered by KimballKinnison 2 · 0 0

The earth is constantly recycling carbon (as in carbon dioxide, the alleged global warming gas) On land all plants absorb it in order to create the food the need to grow. But the majority of it is abosorbed by the huge masses of phytoplankton in the worlds oceans. In turn oxygen is released.

2006-12-12 17:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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