If global warming is not happening, what's going to remove all the CO2 humans add to the atmosphere each year?

This is a disingenuous question intended to try show off.  As it happens maybe you don't know as much as you think you do.  The fact that the earth has been scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere is well documented in scientific literature.  So far an estimated half of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels has been scrubbed from the atmosphere and found it's way into some other long term storage (like possibly the bottom of the ocean).  To answer your question, the mechanism has already cut in a few hundred years ago.  Try googling "where has all the co2 gone" to get a large number of articles on the subject.  Also it's often noted that while there is some correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature, there is a better correlation between any number of obviously unrelated factors (like divorce rates and global temperature, or property values and global temperature).  Correlation does not prove causation.  Also that temperature graph obviously didn't come from a meteorologist, otherwise 1998 would be the hottest year.  It's not a matter of believers being smarter than sceptics.  There are Nobel Prize Laureates who believe that CO2 has only a minor effect on global temperatures.  Instead of trying to show off, maybe try to accept that you can't prove what you believe.

You are not the first person to have asked this question and let me tell you an example from today's society drunkards are perfectly aware of the ill effects of alcohol and yet they drink even though they know it will kill them one day .So why is it like this? This is because the voices against such activities have become so common that it does not induce much thinking .A person seriously has to think before he takes some sensible action .But since it has become so common most people don't care much about that . And another thing is exploitation by governments and other agencies on the basis of climate change. Have you ever known that on the first plane you weren't allowed to use your cell phones as they said that it can cause a fire but actually radio waves can have no effect on a plane and also the funny thing is they were equipped with pay and use phones if anyone needed to call someone. And if radio waves were capable of causing fire these equipped pay phones could also. These are a few reasons why no one takes global warming seriously however I am perfectly sure it is real as in just over a year the precipitation had doubled and the last two summers were the hottest ever in my life . And if we are not taking serious steps (30% emission cut as proposed by Obama doesn't seem a fast solution) well if you look at the CO2 concentrations throughout earth's history it had been decreasing till about the 1900 when it started increasing and possibly increasing CO2 can turn the earth into a big ball of lava we may die but earth will live(It can first increase temperatures at all regions and result in increasing precipitation which may help bring CO2 down equatorial climate will shift slowly to the poles the equator will become unsuitable for life and then there may n=be hope due to the large quantity of water in oceans which falling as rain can decrease temperature but if it fails and the oceans gets fully evaporated then earth will become a ball of lava and we will die but probably another species might emerge after a few billion years)

Your question assumes that CO2 is the only thing that affects global temperature. That's a false assumption. Water vapor has a much larger greenhouse effect on temperature than CO2 does. The fluctuating energy output of the sun has a much larger effect too. That being said, plants and oceans are what remove CO2 from the air. CO2 is really good for rainforests and all plant life.

I am not a Client Scientist I cannot really answer this question directly except to say that I don't know what would suddenly start buffering C02 from the air.  Perhaps there is something out there but why are we taking a risk on something we don't know when we do know that warming is taking place and it is due to human activity, So I can only give an account of my observation as an Alpinist since 1966.  In 1966 as a young teenager I climbed many of the glaciated peaks in the Pacific Northwest for the first time.  It was about that time that I climbed Mt Lyell, Conness, Banner and Ritter all peaks with glaciers in Yosemite.  I have since returned to all of these Mountains over the years since. I had read John Muir's account of Mt. Lyell and finding the Lyell Glacier.  I had seen the picture.  Before my climb on Mt Lyell with a youth group I knew everything I could know about it without actually having been there.  So we hiked up to climb the peak and we came to the place where the Glacier had been in 1888 and it was no where to be seen.   The glacier had already been in significant retreat before 1967. Since that trip I have gone back and to my disappointment the glacier was much smaller than my first trip.  The same with Mt Shasta and the other mountains in the Pacific Northwest.  Their glaciers are nothing like the first time I saw them.

See Keelings Sawtooth (Keeling's Curve)   http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/history_legacy/keeling_curve_lessons The 5ppm variation monthly translates to a a 80GT variance every month in atmospheric CO2 (from 40GT above to 40GT below the line)Mankind AGW, highest estimate is 0.5GT monthly (6GT annually).So the natural variation is 80GT per month- human activity is 1/160 of that....and as yet they cannot accurately identify how that 40GT below the line is absorbed or the 40GT above the line is released... or why added 1/160th CO2  should somehow avoid being handled identically. 

Is actually an expert on this topic. And hit on one key factor: volcanic sulfur. Also, because some powerful people like the founders of google are under the age of 40, we are monitoring and replanting a significant portion of the trees that we cut down. BUT, if all CO2 stopped today, we still would rise in sea level by 6 feet by 2100. However, we are on track for a 10-20 foot rise by 2020. Anyway, worst case, complete polar cap melt would see a 200 foot sea level rise. And I am investing in property as high above the sea level as possible.

The only thing that is going to "kick in" is humanity understanding that global warming can be slowed by reducing CO2 emission. There is no panacea for global warming, but it can be slowed by human intervention.  And doing nothing about global warming is NOT going to be okay, but all we can do is raise awareness and reduce our own carbon footprints.

There are many good answers but I want to answer because I was asked to. Global warming is indeed happening, but I think that it can't stop this ice age. We are living a warm part of ice age and global temperature should be falling, but it isn't. Colder part of ice age is still going to happend if humans are't able to do something that could keep temperature from lowering. But for the next couple of thousand years, humans are warming Earth (assuming that we don't kill ourselves, because of huge amounts of refugees and smaller land area which can start wars). Things that can store (not remove) CO2 are plants, are plants, especially rainforests which are destroyed in a few years, because most of them don't grow back but instead become deserts. And, I have to mention that if a plant is killed it releases the CO2 that it has stored. Oceans are another thing that can store CO2 and when ice melts there is going to be more oceans. But the thing is that CO2 is not going to stay in oceans forever and it definitely is not the most dangerous. I think that the most dangerous greenhouse gas is methane, because it is about 20 times more effective than CO2 and most of it is under or inside permafrost and it is going to get to atmosphere when there is warm enough. There are many lakes that you can make 10 cm deep hole and light it. It can burn for years. And when developing countries start to consume as much resources as we do, Earth is going to warm a lot faster. There is nothing that can remove CO2. Plants and oceans can store it but it is not permanent. Global warming is not going to stop for the next few thousand years, but after that, Earth can be a longer distance away from sun that it is going to end. And there might be any greenhouse gasses left then. Like someone (I can't remember who) said: "We are doing an experiment that is possible to do only once and we might not be able to see the results". Earth is going to survive but humans may not.

I know that for some, the subject of anthropomorphic global warming is more a visceral than a mental, evidence based one. But for those to whom evidence has any weight, here's one more piece issued today. http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2014/06/16/vast-ice-structures-discovered-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet/.