In case you missed it this morning the LA Times featured a story about Greenpeace and its San Francisco warehouse filled with childish costumes and gear used to harass companies as part of various Greenpeace stunts. It’s a good look at just how much goes into the group’s fundraising.

The space is described as being half a football field long and packed with props; “For an organization that wants us all to live more lightly on Mother Earth, Greenpeace sure has a lot of stuff.”

Throughout the article the reporter describes banners, balloons, airships and a fleet of vehicles that are “jam-packed” into the storehouse and Greenpeace gleefully takes readers on a tour. But in a 1,300 word article the group only mentions the word science once. The activists appear too taken with their own ability to produce “spectacle” and “aw” to care much about substance. It’s a classic case of Greenpeace putting its fundraising style above actual substance.

Amongst the frivolity of costumed crusaders and inane street theater there is one comment that illustrates just how seriously out of touch with mainstream thinking Greenpeace is. The group calls tuna fishermen “terrorists.” Let’s stop for a moment and consider the comparison. Greenpeace believes the men and women who work the water fishing for tuna are akin to the evil network of operatives who murdered nearly 3,000 innocent civilians on September 11.

So out of touch is Greenpeace its leadership allows a comparison like that to stand without correction.

Sad.