A Frigid Chicago and a Virgin's Solution to Global Warming | The Opinionist Blog

Virgin's Sir Richard Branson, the highly successful multiple entrepreneur of activities ranging from airlines to trains, record companies to hotels, mobile communications to space travel, today announced "a $25 million price for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming."
In a Reuters story released this morning - Branson and a plethora of climate change experts - including Al Gore and esteemed climate-change scientists - effectively challenged inventors, industry and academics alike to devise a solution to the 'established scientific fact' that the world is experiencing rapid climate change.
The report suggests, "The winner will have to come up with a way of removing one billion metric tons of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for 10 years — with $5 million of the prize being paid at the start and the remaining $20 million at the end."

	Branson offers millions to save the planet	Telegraph	Fri Feb 9	0
	Scientists to Vie for $25M Climate Prize	Associated Press	Fri Feb 9	14
	$25 million prize for greenhouse gas removal	New Scientist	Fri Feb 9	0
	Billionaire Offers $25M Prize to Fight 'Warming'	The Washington Post	Fri Feb 9	0
	Virgin Earth: Gore To Help Award $25M Prize For GHG Solution	CBC	Sat Feb 10	1