{"id":27390,"date":"2024-05-16T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=27390"},"modified":"2024-05-16T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:18:33","slug":"what-is-co2-and-what-role-does-it-play-in-our-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/05\/16\/what-is-co2-and-what-role-does-it-play-in-our-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CO2 and what role does it play in our atmosphere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CO2 is a colorless, odorless gas. It consists of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. Hence the name: carbon dioxide, which occurs naturally in the Earth&#039;s atmosphere. There, it plays a central role in the so-called carbon cycle. This is the process that regulates the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, soil, plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Plants, in turn, absorb CO2 from the air through photosynthesis and convert it into organic compounds. Oxygen is released. This process regulates the gas balance in the atmosphere and plant life. (<em>Fabian Peters, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicthinking.de\/blog\/2024\/05\/16\/was-genau-ist-co2-und-welche-rolle-spielt-es-in-unserer-atmosphaere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">basicthinking.de<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CO2 is a colorless, odorless gas. It consists of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. That&#039;s where the name comes from: carbon dioxide, which occurs naturally in the Earth&#039;s atmosphere. There, it plays a central role in the so-called carbon cycle. This is the process that regulates the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, soil, plants and animals. Plants, in turn, absorb CO2 from [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}