Now there’s a motto.
Hell hath no fury like a government employee who’s told not to tweet about climate change.
It all started with the Badlands National Park Twitter account. Someone manning the account thought it wise to offer a few factual tweets about climate change.
The park insisted these were emitted by a « former employee. » The tweets were removed.
There were rumors that climate change was now a verboten subject in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Why, on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported the Environmental Protection Agency had been forbidden from releasing scientific research until a political appointee had reviewed it.
Some people claiming to be employees at the National Park Service, however, decided to bite, rather than bark. They created a new Twitter account, using the currently popular « Alt » prefix. The AltUSNatParkService account describes itself as « the Unofficial ‘Resistance’ team of U. S. National Park Service. »
It began tweeting on Tuesday. One of its first missives was aimed at the president : « Mr Trump, you may have taken us down officially. But with scientific evidence & the Internet our message will get out.
