*GREENPEACE*
For Immediate Release     January 29, 2008

GREENPEACE TURNS NATION’S MOST ICONIC LANDMARK INTO MEMORIAL TO FAILED BUSH LEGACY ON CLIMATE

Bush Plan Portrayed as a Disaster on Eve of U.S-Led Climate
Change Meeting

WASHINGTON– Responding to the Bush administration’s continued obstruction of
international efforts to address global warming, Greenpeace activists turned
one of the nation’s most iconic symbols into a memorial to Bush’s failed legacy
on climate change.
Greenpeace projected on the Washington Monument the message: U.S.
Global Warming Plan: Hell and High Water accompanied by an image depicting
rising sea levels at the base, a predicted consequence of global warming.

"President Bush’s policies on global warming are a disaster,” said John Coequyt,
energy policy analyst at Greenpeace USA. “His international meeting on climate
change in Hawaii slated to begin tomorrow is a rogue process to deflect
attention from the administration’s insistence to maintain America’s dependence
on dirty and dangerous energy sources while failing to address the growing
climate crisis. As the Washington monument has long outlived the president it
was built to honor, so too will Bush’s legacy on climate change stand as a
memorial to his neglect, obstruction and destruction.”

Greenpeace’s projection served to call attention to Bush’s global warming
policies a day after his State of the Union address and on the eve of Bush’s
international meeting of the world’s largest emitters of global warming
pollution, called the “Major Economies Meeting,” which takes place in Hawaii on
Wednesday and Thursday.

After being roundly rebuked in December in Bali at the UN’s International
Conference on Climate Change, the Bush administration continues to push its
alternative Major Economies process that seeks to replace the Kyoto Protocol’s
legally binding emissions reduction targets with a completely inadequate
voluntary approach.  “If the President were serious about leading on climate
change, he would stop obstructing the U.N.’s process and endorse a cap on U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions,” Coequyt said. The United States stands completely
isolated as the only industrialized country on the planet not to ratify the
Kyoto Protocol.

"The Bush administration continues to push a climate-destroying agenda and to
obstruct all meaningful efforts to address global warming by the international
community,” said Daniel Mittler Greenpeace International Climate Policy Expert.
“The Bush Administration is hell-bent on obstructing global progress on climate
change and was booed by the world community for its do nothing attitude in Bali
last month. Bush is as opposed to binding emission cuts as ever and his Major
Emitters Meeting in Honolulu is nothing but a cynical charade lacking any
legitimacy.”

Greenpeace is calling on the countries attending the meeting to maintain their
commitments to substantive action under the Kyoto Protocol. Participating
countries include: Japan, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, China,
Canada, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, and
South Africa, as well as the United Nations, the EU Presidency and the EU
Commission.

CONTACT: Jane Kochersperger, Media Officer Greenpeace USA, +1 202 680 3798 cell
John Coequyt, Greenpeace USA energy campaign, +1 202 669 7060 Daniel
Mittler,Greenpeace International Policy Advisor, +49 171
876 53 45

Photos are available
at:http://usaphoto.greenpeace.org/wash_monument_01_29_08/