Park Service Rangers Go Rogue With Alt-Twitter Feed Servicing Climate Science

https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer

A team of National Park Service rangers "and friends" has captured the attention of the Twitterverse posting as "AltUSNatParkService" (@AltNatParkSer) after the Trump administration shut down the Twitter accounts of several federal agencies, and ordered the deletion of tweets involving climate change.

Via The Daily Dot:

As the Trump administration rapidly shuts down the lines of communication between federal agencies and the public, an anonymous Twitter account is upholding the ethos of the National Parks Service.

@AltUSNatParkSer gained more than 170,000 followers overnight after the Badlands National Park Twitter account made headlines by tweeting and then deleting a series of climate change facts. Many Twitter users interpreted the Badlands tweets as a sign of resistance against encroaching censorship and the president’s environmental policies, exemplified by the administration deleting all references to climate change from the White House website.

While the Badlands tweets inspired several parody accounts, the alternate National Parks feed was the one that really caught hold. It claims to be run by “several active NPS rangers and friends,” and spent the night tweeting about climate change, sharing photos of national parks, and promoting free access to information produced by federal agencies.

The Twitter account has quickly grown to over 340,000 in less than 24 hours.

Hello, we are the Alternative National Park Service Twitter Account activated in time of war and censorship to ensure fact-based education. https://t.co/Ez8twyES7p

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

There'$ a rea$on WHY Pre$ident Trump want$ u$ $ilenced on #Climate $cience. Don't let US institutions be cen$ored

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

Call your representative in Congress and say you object to 640m acres of national land being privatised. #resist https://t.co/0Ndg0gk2l1

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

The National Parks, forest and wilderness reserves in our country are our greatest natural assets. We're scared for the future. #Keystone

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

Hi @JettGoldsmith This accnt being run by several active NPS rangers and friends.

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

President Trump has called climate change a hoax & the White House deleted the climate change policies on its website on inauguration day.

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

A media blackout has also been introduced over our colleagues at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

Want some real fact to go with your alt-president? US national parks posted tweets about climate change that were later deleted.

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

No matter our politics: Dems, Reps, Indy, Martian, we all want the best for our parks & that starts with understanding the Earth

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

We don't want any trouble. We just want to keep peer-reviewed "factually accurate" climate science flowing out of US institutions.

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

The consequences of climate change will have profound effect on humans over next 100 years. https://t.co/uroesBJxJw

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 24, 2017

(h/t JoeMyGod)