A national park in South Dakota posted and deleted three tweets about climate change after generating buzz on social media.
The Badlands National Park posted three messages Tuesday afternoon that described the negative effects of climate change — a position President Trump has not fully embraced.
“The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm,” the Badlands’ first tweet stated.
“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate,” the park added. “Flipside of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution. ‘Ocean Acidification’ #climate #carboncycle.”
Within hours all tweets had been deleted.
(Screen shot of deleted tweet)
The messages were posted days after the National Park Service got in trouble with the new president for posting pictures to Twitter that compared crowd sizes of former President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration to Trump’s last week. The park service apologized, and was ordered not to use Twitter until Monday for instruction on how to proceed.
“Until further notice, all park road condition updates will provided on the Mount Rainier Facebook page,” Mount Rainier National Park tweeted on Friday, following the ban.
“Now that social media guidance has been clarified, the department and its bureaus should resume Twitter engagement as normal this weekend, with the exception of social media posts on the secretary’s policy priorities, which will be outlined upon confirmation,” Interior later said.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., was nominated by Trump for interior secretary. His confirmation hearing is still upcoming.
