CO2 Suckers

Carbon dioxide, as we all know, can home from humans, fires, cars, planes, trains, factories and many other things, but most of it is harmful to the ozone layer. The carbon dioxide that is emitted into the air from the burning of fossil fuels, gasoline, and other substances that give off carbon dioxide when burned linger in the stratosphere and react with the elements in the stratosphere which results in the destruction of the ozone layer. Although plants and trees suck carbon dioxide out of the air they don't remove enough of it to linger the destruction of the ozone layer. But, what if someone told you that by planting trees you can actually take one thousand times more carbon dioxide out of the air. You're probably thinking, "Well she just said that plants and trees don't remove carbon dioxide out of the air fast enough." But these are no ordinary trees. They are artificial trees that may be made of pieces of a white- beige plastic that, when combined with sodium carbonate, sucks carbon dioxide out of the air. Physicist Klaus Lackner and his colleague Allen Wright, like all scientists, have encountered a problem though. They need to find a way to dispose of the carbon dioxide from the artificial trees. (Just a heads up these "trees" may not look like trees.)

This is a very important topic in science being discussed around the world. The depletion of the ozone layer is a major problem that has already affected the Earth in the form of global warming. With less of the ozone layer (stratosphere) more sunlight will reach the earth which will cause a global rise in temperatures. One part of the Earth that has already been greatly affected are the polar caps of the Earth. Icebergs have been melting and huge chunks of ice have been breaking off of glaciers.

We should care about the invention of these "trees" because humans have been the main cause of the destruction of the ozone layer. These "trees" could potentially alter the depletion rate of the ozone layer. We need to think of these "trees" as one of the rescuers for our planet. We need to think of the future generations and how our decisions now will affect them in the next 10, 20, or even 200 years. We need to save the Earth before there is no more Earth to save. We don't want to be too late.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/13/carbon-capture