A global warming protest group plans to build a 115-foot tall ice sculpture of President Trump on an Arctic iceberg and then film it melting.

Finland-based Melting Ice has dubbed the effort 'Project Trumpmore' and is scouting a suitable glacier on which to carve Trump's face, which will be 65-ft wide.

Campaigners need to raise $480,000 to begin the project, which they say will help disprove Trump's scepticism of global warming and highlight the need for action.

Finland-based Melting Ice has dubbed the effort 'Project Trumpmore' (pic - computer model) and is scouting a suitable glacier on which to carve Trump's face, which will be 65-ft wide

Courtesy of Project Trumpmore

Trump earned the ire of environmentalists after announcing in June 2017 that the US was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, which committed signatories to keep global temperature rises under 2 degrees Celsius by cutting CO2 emissions.

'Global warming is one of the most important issues and topics of today but there are still people who ponder whether it's a real issue,' said Melting Ice chairman Nicolas Prieto.

'We want to build the monument for all of us, so we can see how long the sculpture lasts before melting. Often people only believe something when they see it with their own eyes.'

Trump has previously referred to global warming as a 'Chinese hoax' intended to make US manufacturers less competitive.

Last year he provoked fury by mocking climate scientists with a tweet claiming recent warm weather disproved their research.

He tweeted on December 28, 2017: 'In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record.

Trump (pictured at the White House on May 2) has previously dismissed global warming as a 'Chinese hoax'

'Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against.'

The Trump administration has also aimed to slash federal funding for studying and tracking climate change while boosting the continued burning of planet-warming fossil fuels.

Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, is carved with the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Trump has mused about being added to Mount Rushmore, and even said at a rally in Ohio last year that he thought it was a possibility.