Yesterday, 49 Greenpeace activists were arrested during a protest outside President Bush’s climate conference at the State Department. After blowing off the UN summit on climate change earlier this week, Bush gathered representatives from major polluting countries in efforts to reverse his awful environmental image.

The Washington Post noted that Bush

assured the rest of the world today that he takes climate change seriously and vowed that the United States "will do its part" in crafting "a new international approach" to reduce the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. However, he proposed no new initiatives to do so.

Fortunately, Greenpeace activists called Bush on his bullshit. Greenpeace’s US executive director John Passacantando told the crowd outside the State Department that “These delegates are hearing us…The American people are going to hear us, because we know this meeting by President Bush is a fraud.” 49 of about 70 protestors, including John, were charged with unlawful assembly after ignoring officers' orders to stop the protest.

John is in our offices today—he spoke to our Advisory Board this afternoon, describing Greenpeace’s current initiatives and fielding tough questions from our students. For more on how you can get involved in climate change on your campus, check out the Campus Climate Challenge.