What's a good way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and reverse global warming and climate change.?

Question

Al Gore and Richard Branson have launched an competition to see who can come up with the best way of removing green house gases from the atmosphere in an attempt to reverse global warming. This contest is open to mainly the science community and will reward $25 million to the winner. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6345557.stm
What ways can you come up with (Scientific or otherwise) that might do the job?

Answer 1

I'm not going for ten points, but this is important.

Removal of CO2 is one important tool, but no way can it do the whole job.

We also need to reduce emissions of CO2 by conserving energy and developing alternative energy. No way do we solve the problem without those.

There is no magic solution here, just hard work. Thinking that there is will lead us into serious trouble.

To the guy above. Look at this graph.

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html

The little squiggles are nature doing its' thing. CO2 falls a bit during summer when plants are active, and rises during the winter. The huge increase is us, burning fossil fuels. Nature buried them over a very long time. We dig them up and burn them, real fast. Unfortunately, we're kicking natures' butt on this one.

To the other guy above with the volcanoes. Volcanoes are not part of global warming. Here's the hard scientific data, which you can also find many other places.

"Volcanic eruptions can [theoretically] enhance global warming by adding CO2 to the atmosphere. However, a far greater amount of CO2 is contributed to the atmosphere by human activities each year than by volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes contribute about 110 million tons/year, whereas other sources contribute about 10 billion tons/year. The small amount of global warming caused by eruption-generated greenhouse gases is offset by the far greater amount of global cooling caused by eruption-generated particles in the stratosphere (the haze effect). Greenhouse warming of the earth has been particularly evident since 1980. Without the cooling influence of such eruptions as El Chichon (1982) and Mt. Pinatubo (1991), described below, greenhouse warming would have been more pronounced."

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html

Answer 2

fix earth's orbit and destroy volcanoes...

Do not believe everything medias are telling, the main problem is earth itself, the CO2 problems are not only human related but also earth related : volcanoes can produce as much CO2 as we can.

And the earth's orbit is not linear, we're coming to an era where earth is going a little toward the sun (as when every 12000 years earth goes further, leading to ice ages).

Anyway, if you put in orbit some huge mirrors reflecting sun rays and casting a little bit of shadow on earth, you might be able to earn a few degrees. But these would be so huge I don't really know how it would be possible technically.

Answer 3

Plant and grow green plants. But at night, it can't remove CO2.
Not build too much high building in an area or in a city.
Not using CFC, air conditioner, refrigerator.
Filter the smoke of the fabrics' buildings, motorcycle, car, diesel, etc.
Not use fire if that's not effective.

Answer 4

Al Gore is a blithering idiotic moron and I wouldn't believe anything he said. and to believe he's going to give someone 25 dollars much less 5 million is just plain silly.

Answer 5

Mother has been recycling CO2 for millions of years ,will that count. CO2 was not a problem and it will not be a problem.

Answer 6

Get rid of all the lawyers and polititions.