{"id":570,"date":"2018-05-08T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/?p=570"},"modified":"2018-05-14T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:35:28","slug":"environmental-group-to-carve-donald-trumps-face-into-the-side-of-arctic-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/environmental-group-to-carve-donald-trumps-face-into-the-side-of-arctic-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental group to carve Donald Trump\u2019s face into the side of Arctic iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[the_ad_placement id=&#8221;manual-placement&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting<\/h4>\n<p>A\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/climate-change\">climate change<\/a> group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/DonaldTrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s face into an arctic iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving a 115-foot ice sculpture of Mr Trump\u2019s face, and have dubbed the effort \u201cProject Trumpmore\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They hope that they will be able to illustrate the dangers of climate change by watching to see how long the sculpture takes to melt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal warming is one of the most important issues and topics of today, There are still people who ponder whether it\u2019s a real issue,\u201d Nicolas Prieto, the chairman of the group, said in as statement on the association\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/projecttrumpmore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build the monument for all of us, so we can see how long the sculpture lasts before melting,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cOften people only believe something when they see it with their own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump has previously whether climate change exists, and has at times even said that parts of the world would benefit from the effects. At other times he has claimed that climate change was \u201ccreated by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-gallery\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"full-gallery\">\n<div class=\"scroller\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu mpu5-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president has acted accordingly during his time in the Oval Office as well. He has appointed a head of the Environmental Protection Agency who had previously sued that same agency over greenhouse gas emissions guidelines. He has also overseen a government that is poised to approve offshore drilling in areas that had previously been off limits.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cProject Trumpmore\u201d raises enough money, the group says that they will instal\u00a0a live stream of the sculpture as it melts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump has previously mused about being added to Mount Rushmore \u2014 the rock sculpture carved into the side of a mountain in South Dakota featuring several prominent American presidents. He even said during a rally in Ohio last year that he thinks there\u2019s a possibility he could be added.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/donald-trump-ice-sculpture-iceberg-climate-change-project-trumpmore-melting-arctic-a8331886.html?utm_source=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_medium=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_term=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_content=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_campaign=DesignTAXI\">Independent<\/a>, images via <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/264496887?utm_source=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_medium=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_term=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_content=DesignTAXI&amp;utm_campaign=DesignTAXI\">Admin ProjectTrumpmore<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[the_ad_placement id=&#8221;manual-placement&#8221;] The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting A\u00a0 climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump\u2019s face into an arctic iceberg. The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/environmental-group-to-carve-donald-trumps-face-into-the-side-of-arctic-iceberg\/\" class=\"more-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayle.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}