What is a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere?

Answer 1

well, yes and no. yes, there are natural sinks for greenhouse gases and ways of enhancing these sinks, but none are easy or well proven or necessarily without other negative repercussions.

Sure, one can imagine technological ways to remove target gases from the atmosphere, and even demonstrate these mechanisms as scientifically valid on the bench scale (basic chemistry could be useful), but in practice, these methods are completely useless for producing a real impact on the global content of greenhouse gases because of the size and cost and demands on resources that these methods would require.

What I am trying to say is that natural processes are about the only real way to address any disequilibrium in greenhouse gas contents in the atmosphere. Eventually the earth system will work itself back into equilibrium, once the excessive addition of greenhouse gases is eliminated.

Whether the current disequilibrium is as big a problem as many people perceive is an entirely separate discussion so I didn't enter into it here.

Answer 2

Plant life requires CO2 to live. They take in Carbon Dioxide and give off Oxygen. This is why the whole global warming scam is effective. Most people do not know how many other things there are to consider beside the effects of Carbon Dioxide.

If the planet were to warm up significantly, more plant life would grow. (places such as Greenland will go back to being green) increased plant growth decreased carbon dioxide.

Another system to consider is warmer weather increasing evaporation. More evaporation, the more humidity. The more humidity the more suspended water vapor. The more suspended water vapor the more clouds. The more cloud cover the less solar radiation. The less solar radiation the more the earth cools.

It is an system that always achieves balance. It is not nearly as fragile as you are being led to believe.

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Answer 3

As far as I am aware, there is not yet a possible way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

All we can really do now is attempt to cut CO2 emissions at least 50% by 2050.

Answer 4

The easiest way is not to put them there in the first place because anything else requires energy which usually produces more greenhouse gases.

Trees taking out carbon dioxide seems to be the exception.

Answer 5

Check your Earth Science book

Answer 6

Trees. Or more correctly, rain forests.