Today, the AP reports that Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic will offer a $25M prize ($5 for an initial “solution” and the rest over 10 years if the judges think the “solution” is working) for anyone who can create a method of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

He even has the gall to compare his prize with the 1675 longitude measurement contest that was eventually won by John Harrison. That prize was for something useful; Branson’s prize simply helps promote some passive-minded anti-human religion.

Do environmentalists really want a “solution” to global warming? They must realize that if a “solution” is achieved, they lose their back-door path to installing world socialism (the ulterior motive). But of course, anthropogenic global warming is not their only claim to hate humanity: they also have anthropogenic mass extinctions, toxic waste, habitat encroachment, population increases, and anything and everything else that humans ever do.

Also, wouldn’t rational people be opposed to such a machine? Who made Al Gore an expert in the “proper” level of carbon dioxide? He certainly doesn’t want you to know that CO2 was more abundant in the atmosphere during previous ice ages. 

The temperatures in Chicago this past week were never above 10F. Wouldn’t those residents have something to say about manipulating the atmosphere to make their frozen winters even colder? Perhaps this machine would incite a new civil war between the “ice age now” southern factions versus the “keep it warming” northern states?

What about all of the human deaths attributed to cold weather? What about the increase in vegetation that carbon dioxide should bring? That would help increase the food supply.

The only thing good to say about this prize is that it’s privately funded. I.e., all money is the result of voluntary free trade (except the tax breaks), and not the result of some overzealous socialist politicians seeking to cripple individuals by stealing their earned wealth to fund their religious environmental causes.

However, at the very least, if you care about rationality in the world, you would not contribute to Virgin Atlantic’s madness.

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