Badlands National Park goes on a climate change tweetstorm
Badlands National Park goes on a climate change tweetstorm:- Badlands National Park in South Dakota is known for rugged scenery, fossil beds, bison and for a brief moment at least, a Twitter account that blasted a short stream of tweets about the perils of climate change — before they met their own personal extinction Tuesday afternoon.
The Badlands account, @BadlandsNPS, referenced the atmosphere’s current carbon dioxide levels, the highest in 650,000 years, and today’s ocean acidity levels, 30% higher than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, alongside more typical tweets about park facts and wildlife.
The climate change statements run counter to President Donald Trump’s remarks over the past few months that climate change is a Chinese hoax and also don’t fit well with his concern that regulations meant to slow climate change were damaging to American business.
“For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” a top issue brief on the new president’s White House website read.
The Badlands tweets were deleted from the feed Tuesday afternoon but gave birth to a host of others riffing on the tempest, however small it might have been.
What if the Badlands National Park is a hoax invented by the Chinese to make our parks less competitive?
— Scott McGrew (@ScottMcGrew) January 25, 2017
Hey, friends. Here to support @BadlandsNPS with the science facts they can no longer share!
— BadHombreLands NPS (@BadHombreNPS) January 24, 2017
Government social media accounts have been the subject of oversight in the administration’s first week, with staff at the Environmental Protect Agency told to halt posts to social media while policies are reviewed. That oversight — while perhaps not surprising — has alarmed Democrats and environmental activists, and put outliers like the Badlands account into sharper focus.
The Interior Department, which runs the National Parks system, has curbed some social media activity. It temporarily shut down its Twitter site after side-by-side photos of the crowds on the National Mall for President Barack Obama’s first inaugural and the smaller crowd for Trump’s swearing-in were tweeted out.
Whoever was tweeting from the Badlands National Park account clearly had a great love for the environment,
The swift fox is closely to the kit fox. #CommonAncestry #ParkScience #Evolution pic.twitter.com/xm9haQ4kq6
— Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 22, 2017
56 days until spring, but hey, who's counting? pic.twitter.com/6M0c284f1e
— Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 23, 2017
"Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away"
Percy Shelley pic.twitter.com/GEju9bExOw— Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 10, 2017
In the last 100 years, the Earth’s surface temps have risen an average 1.33°F. More than 20% of this change been since 1996. #Climate
— Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 10, 2017
On Tuesday the climate change tweets were gone and the tweet stream featured instead a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright, “Study #nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
"Study #nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” -Frank Lloyd Wright #findyourpark pic.twitter.com/glByqcY2qz
— Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 24, 2017
Source:- http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/01/24/badlands-national-park-goes-climate-change-tweetstorm/97012542/
