If there’s one way to get people to stop polluting the environment, it’s by defacing public property with garbage:

That’s real, not a Photoshop. And Greenpeace is so proud of this stunning acheivement, it’s on the front page of their site. But the National Park Service wasn’t so amused:

Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.

A video posted on the environmental group’s website showed the massive banner hanging on the South Dakota mountain face.

Its message — “America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming” and an unfinished portrait of Obama — was barely visible as it was whipped by wind…

“Early this morning visitors saw these individuals on the mountain,” said Amy Bracewell, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service.

“They got up next to Abraham Lincoln and unfurled the large banner,” she told AFP.

“As soon as our people were mobilized we took down the banner and apprehended them and got them safely down the mountain.”

Too bad. Note to Greenpeace: If global warming is caused by humans, and you’re humans, then the best way to use Mount Rushmore to promote your cause isn’t to hang some dumb banner. You’d be doing a lot more to save the environment if you used George Washington’s nose as a slide.

“Wheeeee!!” Splat. No more carbon footprint. Plus, you’d be providing valuable nutrients to the local flora and fauna. Please consider it.

Yesterday it was Al Gore saying people who disagree with him are like the Nazis, and now this. Why is it that the closer the WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING crowd gets to achieving their goals, the more desperate they’re acting? Force of habit?

P.S. If you’re expecting one man on Earth not to behave like a politician, boy oh boy, did you pick the wrong guy.