Newly Oscar-nominated star of "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has teamed up with British billionaire Richard Branson. The two on Friday announced that a $25 million prize for reducing the earth's warming gases, essentially reducing global warming.
Branson and Gore hope that a competition and some dollar signs (since the evident demise of the environment is not enough incentive) will coax brilliant minds to work together to come up with a project that "must be more than a stop-gap against global warming gases" says the New York Times.
In response to the claim that maybe that big prize could be seen as a gimmick, Gore ensures that it will not be a distraction from the main goal of reducing emissions of CO2.
One would hope that glacial melting, warmer winters and drowning polar bears would provide enough reason to want to save the earth on which we live. But I guess tacking on $25 million to that makes it more worthwhile.
Ben Parsons @ Sun, 02/11/2007 - 11:03am
http://boortz.com/nuze/200702/02022007.html
Wherein Neal Boortz absolutely, definitively, positively puts the global warming myth to rest, once and for all, God rest its soul.