More civil disobedience and vandalism along the thinking of Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS, who advocates such things.
From Ecorazzi and Treehugger
Greenpeace took a unique approach today and sent several climbers up Mt. Rushmore in the middle of the night to deploy a giant 75lb sixty-five feet high by thirty-five feet wide banner calling for Climate Action. Featuring an unfinished portrait of the President, it read “America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming.” The demonstration came as President Obama meets other G8 leaders in l’Aquila, Italy today to discuss the global warming crisis in the lead-up to UN climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen this December.
The banner managed to stay up on Mt. Rushmore for about an hour before being cut at around 1:17 PM est. Greenpeace was quick to point out that they respect American monuments and the banner was not installed in any way detrimental to the carvings on Mt. Rushmore. For more information, jump to the official Greenpeace posting on the event here.
via Treehugger
[UPDATE: Newsweek‘s The Gaggle blog says it has learned: “That a team of 12 experienced climbers prepped conspicuously for months planning for different scenarios to ensure the action could be completed safely. The group also promised there would be no damage to the actual monument, which is solid granite. And all involved planned to spend several weeks behind bars.”]
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Pimply PhD’s in Birkenstocks.
I wonder what the “carbon footprint” of the sign factory that made that monster is?
The reason is doubtless because the politics of ‘global warming’ have come to a head, both in the USA, with this fanatical administration racing to get its Tax and Trade ‘climate bill’ passed, and the EPA declaring carbon dioxide a ‘pollutant’; and in the rest of the Western world, with one group after another issuing dire warnings in the runup to a ‘new Kyoto’ in Copenhagen. Climate realists would be remiss if they did not seek to lance these horrible boils before they burst and cover us all with their ideological and tyrannical pus.
Ideally, these crazed ideologues will miraculously come to their senses:
Unfortunately, between true belief in the evils of ‘climate change’, and the ulterior motive of controlling the economies of the West, I fear that our only hope lies in turning the bastards out, and that means holding their feet to the electoral fire—and that means educating the public.
This website is doing yeoman service in that noble cause. When the battle is won, we can go back to baking cookies and admiring sunsets.
/Mr Lynn
I am no fan of Greenpeace, but even I don’t call this vandalism. A trespassing PR stunt, perhaps….
It must have taken them 10 years to reach the summit of Mt. Rushmore during which time they didn’t keep up on any scientific data.
BTW, it snowed in Yonkers, NY, today. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/news/regionalnews/snow_plows_remove_hail_after_summer_stor_178218.htm
@ur momisugly Pamela Gray (15:39:48) :
” . . . I say to Greenpeace, take more pictures of it and put it in a scrap book. It will amuse your grandchildren to no end. Much ado about nothing and makes for a good laugh over a beer. By the way, Save the Ales.”
Thank you for that, Pamela. I wanted to use some very [snip] -able language, but your take on this is much better for my blood pressure.
“defaces”?!? [snip] It’s just a banner that got quickly removed. No damage done. Get over yourselves.
No damage done? How do you know? How did they attach this heavy banner? Did they use scotch tape, or did they weight it down, or did they hammer something into the rock?
Why can’t some enterprising yuts climb atop
702 H St NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20001
and append a banner reading “Greenpeace: communist nutcases reside in this building”? Fair’s fair.
Deface Greenpeace!
Feedback to the greenpeace article had 7 comments. 1 applauded the stunt, 4 were critical of the stunt, 1 was critical of a commenter, and 1 critical of the AGW science.
Seems like they don’t even get much support on their own web page article. Things that make you go hmmmm…
North by northwest.
(An old-time euphemism for “mad.”)
Its a shame too. There are REAL environmental issues facing us. But they are thrown under the rickety AGW bus.
And Greenpeace….just like the ACLU…are controlled by a few super-radicals that make NO logical sense.
They go overboard and ruin their platform by scaring away legitimate reasonable supporters.
**** ’em!
Let the real environmentalist people free of leftist (or rightist) political agenda….band together.
The Earth deserves it…and appreciates it.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
+2C. That ought to do it for the next 300 years at the present 100 yr rate.
500 years if you count in the present cooling.
Didn’t anyone bother to tell them to closely examine Inconvenitent Truth?
See the Ice Age graphs?
They fall to the bottom like rocks in the Grand Canyon. They rise like the Great Plains on the way to the Rockies.
Takes forever to get there.
savethesharks (20:52:52) :
There sure are a load of real environmental issues, all of which will get shelved in favor ot Tax & Spill.
I like the environment i just don’t like most environmentalist’s.
Why do they call themselves “Greenpeace”? Their fight against CO2 makes little for the “green” thing (photosinthesis, chlorofile). Their acts of civil desobedience, ships assaults, sabotages, etc also have little to do with “peace”. They should be rather called “medievalist warriors”, or something like that.
Jim Watson (16:48:29) :
BTW, it snowed in Yonkers, NY, today. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/news/regionalnews/snow_plows_remove_hail_after_summer_stor_178218.htm
have there been other crop flattening hailstorms in the last fortnight, or did Piers Corbyn pitch his forecast a bit early?
If Greenpeacr defaced the monument by attaching a banner, what did the monument do to the mountain?
Ridiculous overreaction here.
My two cents… I’ve read this story before coming here and seeing it posted, and according to that report, they used “anchors already in place to post the banner”.
Now, I don’t know what the laws are for climing Mt Rushmore without permission, but if they were arrested on the grounds of vandalizing a national monument, damages should, provided this is still the USA, be proven before arrests and other charges are made. This is not how it was handled.
I don’t support the green religion, but to arrest on the mere basis of a beleif, on which no damages are yet proven from this particular action… Well, that means they can sue on the basis of having had their civil rights violated, doesn’t it?
If so, bad call. And people wonder why green groups can stay so funded as they are so that they never go away. If ther are no damages… they have ammo. Oh and btw… didn’t they just promote that liberal-biased judge to the Supreme Court, who among other things is a greenie? Yeah. Way to go South Dakota and the Parks Dept!
Benjamin, the fact that they were trespassing was sufficient cause for an arrest.
Smokey (06:10:35) : “Benjamin, the fact that they were trespassing was sufficient cause for an arrest.”
Thats what I thought, but the stories I read about it (three thus far) are saying vandalism or at least making it out to be that charge. Media bias, perhaps. But tresspasing… Okay, works for me! 🙂
One can only hope that they are incarcerated until they can no longer climb mountains or until the whole AGW hysteria is over.
No, Jim Hansen will jet in to testify for them; if he’s not too busy having his opinions suppressed.
How much carbon did their little exercise and the Greenpeace website burn?
This should read America honors expanisionist leaders who wholesale slaughter american indians so they can give rise to groups who needlessly whine about things they disagree with.
Dan Gibson (05:32:38) :
“If Greenpeacr defaced the monument by attaching a banner, what did the monument do to the mountain?
Ridiculous overreaction here.”
No, a ridiculous comparison. Not everything is considered “defacing”.
But Greenpeace did deface the Monument, as surely as grafitti does, apparent in the picture above.
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Benjamin (05:52:50) :
“My two cents… I’ve read this story before coming here and seeing it posted, and according to that report, they used “anchors already in place to post the banner”.”
“Now, I don’t know what the laws are for climing Mt Rushmore without permission, but if they were arrested on the grounds of vandalizing a national monument, damages should, provided this is still the USA, be proven before arrests and other charges are made. This is not how it was handled.”
Sorry, we do not need to prove anything before arresting people. There are very reasonable grounds to arrest the punks for vandalism among other charges that may be brought later, since Park officials caught them in the act, and the banner itself is evidence of vandalism.
Park spokesmen so far have not volunteered information as to how they managed access to the Monument, citing security concerns. But there is a security system in place, including an alarm system, which monitors access to restricted areas. Apparently at least some part of that alarm system was either disabled, damaged or defeated. They “broke in”.
So far, I’m only aware of the charge of tresspassing being brought against the individuals directly involved. But this was a Greenpeace operation, and it may be that the organization has some responsibility as well. If I were the judge I’d charge them with the maximum possible fine and punishment and not allow the organization to foot the fine and court costs, and fine the dickens out of Greenpeace as well. Greenpeace has shown itself to be willing and to have put lives and property in danger on a regular basis.