Badlands park tweets fleetingly defy Trump climate views
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:20 pm
The national park offers a few facts about our role driving climate change before the posts are removed from Twitter.
The Badlands National Park Twitter account rose from obscurity Tuesday with a quartet of tweets about global climate change that defied the Trump administration's stance on the issue -- at least until they were removed after a few hours.
The tweets from the South Dakota park described basic aspects of climate change science -- how burning gasoline creates carbon dioxide, how carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased, and how the oceans are becoming more acidic. Even after the tweets were removed, supporters posted screenshots in response to a benign "caption this" tweet that remained.
The flurry of activity shows how the same internet service that helped fuel Donald Trump's rise to power also can be used against him by government employees -- at least until prohibited from doing so.
The National Park Service was banned from tweeting, the Washington Post reported Friday, after retweets about Trump's smaller inauguration crowd and the administration's removal of Obama administration web pages about civil rights, global warming and health care. And the Environmental Protection Agency has been similarly prohibited, according to the Associated Press. A Golden Gate National Park tweet from Monday about 2016 being the hottest year on record remains online, though.
The White House, National Park Service and Badlands National Park didn't respond to requests for comment. Read More:
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The Badlands National Park Twitter account rose from obscurity Tuesday with a quartet of tweets about global climate change that defied the Trump administration's stance on the issue -- at least until they were removed after a few hours.
The tweets from the South Dakota park described basic aspects of climate change science -- how burning gasoline creates carbon dioxide, how carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased, and how the oceans are becoming more acidic. Even after the tweets were removed, supporters posted screenshots in response to a benign "caption this" tweet that remained.
The flurry of activity shows how the same internet service that helped fuel Donald Trump's rise to power also can be used against him by government employees -- at least until prohibited from doing so.
The National Park Service was banned from tweeting, the Washington Post reported Friday, after retweets about Trump's smaller inauguration crowd and the administration's removal of Obama administration web pages about civil rights, global warming and health care. And the Environmental Protection Agency has been similarly prohibited, according to the Associated Press. A Golden Gate National Park tweet from Monday about 2016 being the hottest year on record remains online, though.
The White House, National Park Service and Badlands National Park didn't respond to requests for comment. Read More:
https://www.cnet.com/news/badlands-park ... ate-views/
