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Over the past few months, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has witnessed the nation’s energy secretary applauding companies for leaving the group, activists masquerading as its officials to hold a mock press conference, and now, protesters attempting to take over its building.

And this is all because the group doesn’t agree that global warming is man-made and that federal cap-and-trade policies are the answer to stopping it.

Last Thursday, Greenpeace brought ladders to the chamber’s D.C. headquarters, located directly across from the White House, to wrap yellow “crime scene” tape around the building. Roughly a dozen protesters descended on the chamber to tag it as a “Global Warming Crime Scene … Climate Policy Hostage Area.”

The environmental group held the event to coincide with President Obama’s trip to the U.N. conference on climate change in Copenhagen.

Four of them were arrested at the event for unlawful entry.

“President Obama owes it to Americans and all people threatened by climate change to listen to scientists, not polluter lobbyists,” said Gabe Wisniewski, Greenpeace climate campaigner. “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been undermining our climate policy for too long.”

‘Cop-out’

“Two years have passed since world leaders promised all of us a deal to stop climate change. After two weeks of U.N. negotiations, politicians breezed in, had dinner with the Queen, a three-hour lunch, took some photos, and then delivered what could only be described as the 24-hour Head of State tourist brochure of Copenhagen instead of a climate treaty.”

- Greenpeace’s assessment of the United Nations’ conference on climate change.

Back at ya

Greenpeace got a taste of its own medicine at the climate-change conference.

The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free-market group that describes itself as “climate realists,” tagged two of Greenpeace’s well-known vessels with unflattering banners as they sailed outside of Copenhagen.

CFACT members boarded the Arctic Sunrise under the guise of delivering doughnuts to Greenpeace activists and unfurled off the ship a banner that read “Ship of Lies.”

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