No, this is not a satire. Greenpeace has launced an art project this week that makes the case for polar bears everywhere in light of global warming. For the demonstration, er, project, Greenpeace had mannequins wear polar bear heads and ratty clothing to 'dramatize' how GW is causing polar bears to end up 'homeless' because of melting sea ice. The D.C. police were not amused as the polar bear protest stood in traffic holding signs that said S.O.S., while another prompted an investigation by the bomb squad.

They also have other 'mannequins' showing a homeless polar bear eating out of a trashcan (which shut down the nearby Metro station for 2 hours when the bomb squad was called in), and another with a faux bear panhandling for change. The biggest punchline to their supposed concern for humanity is making a mockery of a current human tragedy: homeless people. But when you're looking through green-colored glasses, getting hopped up on some theoretical catastrophe rather than helping those who are actually in need is the real disaster.

If this is how Greenpeace is spending its enormous financial resources to show the plight of bears and humans, than they have only shown what it means to be inhumane.