If We Extract Greenhouse Gases....

.....from the atmosphere wouldn't we leave a hole similar to the one in the ozone layer which would create additional problems for the human race.

25M prize to beat greenhous gas
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$25M prize to beat greenhouse gas


POSTED: 6:55 a.m. EST, February 9, 2007

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LONDON, England (AP) -- British tycoon Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the first scientist to come up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The Virgin Group chairman was joined by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and other leading environmentalists as he announced the challenge to find ways to significantly reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Branson compared his challenge to the competition launched in 1675 to devise a method of estimating longitude accurately. It was 60 years before English clock maker John Harrison discovered an accurate method and received his prize from King George III.

"The Earth cannot wait 60 years. We need everybody capable of discovering an answer to put their minds to it today," Branson said.

"We have only our own ingenuity and we have no hope of a meaningful solution unless we find a way to work together," Branson said. "Necessity is the mother of invention."

Wasn't the atomic bomb developed because of necessity?