Role Model or Bond Villain?

Role model or Bond villain? "At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world 'on fire.'"

What he wanted to know was whether his high-powered visitors, among them Larry Page of Google, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, thought global warming threatened the planet.

Branson does - and so did most of his guests. So on this recent weekend on his private hideaway in the crystalline waters between the islands of Tortola and Anegada, they tried to figure out what to do about it and perhaps get richer in the process.

Sounds like a little from Column A and a little from Column B...