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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May I suggest we replace the “defaced” picture of Mount Rushmore with an undefaced picture and just describe the problem instead of delivering the misanthropists’ message to everyone who clicks in?
Thanks.
Oh great, now they will add surveillance cameras there that can keep an eye on movement, even at night. That system will probably cost another million bucks, money that could have gone towards solving so many other important problems the O admin is working hard on…… like fixing http://www.recovery.gov which is less than one year old and is already been allocated $18 million over the next 5 years for a redo. There’s your stimulus money hard at work doing things that don’t need to be done, making those $5,000 toilet seats look like government value meals.
Way to go Greenpeace !!!! Greenpeace did this to generate conversation. For those who post negative comments, THANKS FOR KEEPING THE CONVERSATION GOING, as you are adding to the publicity……excellent
REPLY: You are 100% correct. Lesson learned. Ignore Greenpeace in the future as they are irrelevant
If you think Greenpeace are irrelevant, check here:
http://forum.junkscience.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=288.0
Greenpeace ships are garbage scows carrying around greenpeace garbage they realy should quit painting a dove on their ships and paint a headless chicken
I hope the judge senteces them to a highway clean up crew so that they can finaly make themselves usful