by Playfuls Staff |
9th February 2007
British business mogul Richard Branson is offering $25 million to anyone who finds a way to remove the greenhouse gas [more] carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Branson announced the Earth Challenge prize at a London news conference with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who made the global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," the BBC reported Friday.
"The Earth cannot wait 60 years," Branson said. "I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking."
Branson said a panel of scientists will oversee the contest. They include James Hansen, head of the NASA Institute for Space Studies; James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory; British environmentalist Crispin Tickell and Australian conservationist Tim Flannery, the BBC said.
The goal of the competition is to capture 1 billion tons of carbon per year.
"It's a challenge to the moral imagination of humankind to actually accept the reality of the situation we are now facing," Gore said.
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