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$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix
SaDan writes "Richard Branson is offering $25M as a bounty for a fix to global warming. The person or organization that can devise a method to remove at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere will be able to claim the bounty. There are a few catches, of course. There can't be any negative impact on the environment, and the payment will come in chunks. A 5 million dollar payout will be paid when the system is put into place with the remainder of the bounty to be paid after 10 years of continuous use."
Yep, like clockwork, environmentalists can come up with an excuse why anything other than micromanaging developed economies according to their dictates won't save the planet from global warming, only THEY know the way.
Since this plan allows for expensive solutions, why not put the trees on artificial floating islands in the Pacific? I bet you already have a story about why any blockage of sunlight over the Pacific would DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT. I want to hear this one.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Before the Iraq war the whole world knew [exactly what would happen in the future].
but "the whole world" didn't have any plan to solve any problem. And they still don't. Maybe we should let sanctions work.
The only major exception was the Americans...
who devised a plan and acted on it, unlike the rest of the world (except Britian, Korea, Poland, Austrailia, and a whole host of other countries who were with "the Americans" -- not part of "the whole world" I guess).
Etc. Your post is pure history revisionism. You're a good advocate for global warming. Made up facts, "everyone knows" nonsense to exert social pressure on people to agree with you, condescension of ordinary people, fearmongering, and anti-Americanism -- you've got it all in there.
I don't know which is worse, your ignorance or your arrogance.