The invention provides a preparation method of cobalt manganese spinel microspheres. The method comprises weighing manganese chloride and cobalt chloride, dissolving the manganese chloride and cobaltchloride in deionized water, weighing ammonium hydrogen carbonate as a pH adjuster, carrying out mixing through stirring, carrying out hydrothermal pretreatment at 100-150 DEG C, after the reaction product is naturally cooled, carrying out centrifugal filtration, orderly washing the precipitates through deionized water and ethanol, carrying out drying to obtain cobalt carbonate and manganese carbonate precursors, and calcining the cobalt carbonate and manganese carbonate precursors through a muffle furnace at a temperature of 500 to 700 DEG C for 1-3h to obtain the cobalt manganese spinel microspheres. The cobalt manganese spinel microspheres are used for research on thermal catalytic CO2 reduction and can produce synthetic organic fuel (methane). The cobalt manganese spinel obtained by the preparation method is a pure phase and spherical, has a high specific surface area, obvious exposes the high-energy crystal surface, reduces the temperature of thermal catalytic CO2 reduction and has high product selectivity.