Richard Branson offers $25m global warming prize..

[Poison Ivy]

...to anyone who can come up with a way of removing one billion metric tons of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for ten years.

Full story here

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-02-09T130907Z_01_L09442233_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-CLIMATE-PRIZE-DC.XML&src=020907_1507_DOUBLEFEATURE_other_news

[sprite1986]

Spend $28 million planting five gazillion-trillion-billion.. trees, and making a complete switch to alternative energy sources (particularly biofuel/methane things), and possibly culling half the human population.


Fantastic, I'll email him my account details.



EDIT: but it's good of him to try though, at least. Although I don't suspect he'll ever have to pay out..

[RedWellies]

I saw him interviewed on Richard and Judy earlier but the TV signal was bad because of the snow so I only heard a bit. I like him...at least he's trying to help (ignore the fact he has/had lots of planes!!).

[aubergine]

Easy...

Get everyone to give up meat.

[fiamma]

And the prize goes to... vegandrummersam!!!! Drinks are on you, ok? ;)

[Purple]

Having read the article in full (and some shocking stuff on another link about global warming/pollution etc from the beef industry), I realise it doesn't appear to be about cutting carbon gas emissions - he's after a magic bullet to physically remove the CO2 from the air.


In other words, treat the symptoms, not the cause. :(

[aubergine]

And the prize goes to... vegandrummersam!!!! Drinks are on you, ok? ;)

If he goes for that, then why not :)