Recent News Coverage: Richard Branson and Live Earth

Firstly, when the IPCC 4AR SPM was released recently there where no 'climate skeptics' to be heard in the british media.
More recently, Richard Branson, known as a self-publicist announced a $25 million, prize to anyone who can remove large qauntities of carbon from the atmosphere afordably. Now many people can do this, Klaus Lackener of Columbia University is one of the most vocal proponents of a mineral technology for doing this, many others have there own ideas such as using hemp as a building material or a fuel in CCS plants, but if we assume that these aren't good enough then what he is after is a way to take co2 out the atmospher as cheaply as we put it in. Environmentaliists jumped on this eutopian quest for a techno-fix as insane: therby completely missing the point! He has used his publicity skills to get cheap (most likely free) media coverage. This story was

Lastly. Live Earth is Go! Superb. Thanks Al Gore, and to all you cynics out there I don't know whose planet you have been on but if you don't think that Al Gore has taken this message to the masses like a master then you must be pretty jaded. Live Earth, and Al Gore, will be slated: Great. Again, I predict that Al and the event will take the slack but that criticism will be on what he is doing, how the event is being runt etc, not on the why.

I ask that everyone involved in the movement realises this and does there best to adapt.
p.s Fox News have already started the slander on Al Gore, saying he isn't green...implying that being green is a good thing.
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