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Sir Richard Branson today offered a $25m (£12.8m) prize for scientists who find a way to help save the planet from the effects of climate change.Flanked by the former US vice-president Al Gore and other environmentalists, the boss of Virgin Atlantic airlines called for scientists to come up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Describing the prize as the largest ever offered, Sir Richard compared it to the competition to devise a method of accurately estimating longitude. He denied that being the head of an airline prevented him from being concerned about climate change.
2 comments:
Wow, this gets better and better. I'm interested in Gore's concert, but still think it's a tad hypocritical considering his wife started the PMRC in the eighties. I'm glad to see these grass roots efforts being made, though.
I don't know about Gore's concert (me being in SA) but what have so far been communicated of his actions here hasn't been very complimentary.
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