Look up carbon sequestration.
Methane will turn into CO2 in a few years (as several people have already said), but, unless we take measures, the bulk of the CO2 in the atmosphere will remain there for centuries.
There is no simple or easy way we can remove significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, at least with present technology. It would make more sense to simply emit less CO2 and methane in the first place. This would slow global warming, and even slowing global warming would give us and the rest of the biosphere more time to adapt.
The main problem with global warming is simply the speed at which it is occurring. Natural climate change takes place over many centuries, not a few decades.
We could lower methane by reducing our emissions of methane, because methane only lasts for a few years in the atmosphere. But we can only slow down and eventually stop the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What carbon dioxide we have put there will remain there for a thousand years.
Man made global warming is a HOAX. Volcanic eruption such as Icelands produced more CO2 than the entire past 50 years of industrial burning.
Methane CH4 is constantly and rapidly degraded by lightning. Repeated cloud to cloud upper atmosphere activity.' It goes to CO2 and H2O. 80% of the Earths surface is water, available day and night.
CO2 is absorbed by the oceans 24/7. It is rapidly converted to usable carbonates and starts the food chain as nutrients for algae, etc. The colder the water the more CO2 it holds. Just like soda pop.
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We apparently can't, as we're adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year. The amount is so large in the atmosphere so vast that there is no practical way to lower them. Methane only stays into the atmosphere for a few decades as it is converted to CO2, but it is about 20 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas and we keep putting more there each year. The CO2 we are now putting the atmosphere will likely stay for a few centuries. In would be much more practical to just stop putting them in the atmosphere than it is to try to remove them.
Hello Corina,
Actions we can take against human-produced global warming are that we need to reduce the human-produced carbon dioxide, and also prevent the destruction of carbon-dioxide absorbing life, in particular trees.
Two ways of reducing human-produced carbon dioxide:
Reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, since this gas causes more carbon dioxide.
One way would be to use hydrogen-powered vehicles, instead of carbon monoxide emission fuel.
Another way is to reduce dependence on carbon monoxide emission fuels in the production of electricity, by the passing of laws requiring all usable roof structures to have solar cells. The electricity produced, reduces consumption from power stations, by both providing power to the building to which they are connected and by adding any excess to the national grid.
The use of nuclear power is "dirty" power, since it produces another problem, that of radioactive waste, and also its safety cannot be guaranteed sufficiently, or at all.
So called "bio" (or allegedly "green") fuels like palm oil add to climate change by the destruction of rain forests.
I hope this helps.
Robert.
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We cant but trees cans, they naturally convert co2 to oxygen during photosynthesis, methane reacts with oxygen over time producing co2, pity mankind is removing thousands of acres of forest every day.
You can start by reducing your own personal carbon footprint and encouraging friends, family and co-workers to do the same http://sustainability.publicradio.org/co...
We can't.
Don't believe the people that worship manufactured model-based projections.
It should not be that hard.Any one got an answer?
