Branson made green pledge under pressure from Gore, Turner

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LONDON, England(AFP) — British businessman Richard Branson made a multi-billion-dollar pledge to fight global warming under pressure from US media mogul Ted Turner and former vice-president Al Gore. He told the Independent on Sunday that global warming was approaching "a tipping point" and Turner and Gore had convinced him it was time to act.

"We just have to hope that it has not come already," he said Sunday. "We have to try to do something about it. One way is to try to come up with a clean alternative fuel or fuels." Branson said that following the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States last year he thought that fuel prices had soared because of a shortage of oil-refining capacity. "I started to build an oil refinery, but then Ted Turner rang me up and...