Here's the prize, fix Earth!
Feb. 10th, 2007 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
$25 million offered for global warming fix
Sir Richard Branson today announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, comparing it to the 17th-century quest to revolutionize navigation by determining longitude. The Virgin Group chairman was joined by former Vice President Al Gore and other leading environmentalists as he announced the challenge to find the world's first viable design to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the air. A landmark report by the world's leading climate scientists and government officials, published in Paris last week, warned global warming will continue for centuries, creating a far different planet in 100 years.