--- title: Badlands National Park Tweets on Climate After EPA Blackout description: Badlands National Park tweeted a few facts about climate change Tuesday, sharing statistics that might contradict President Trump's beliefs canonical: https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-24T21:24:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T12:46:33.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts og:description: In defiance of Donald Trump og:url: https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14a43f47fd4eaca9/6988b70f86f68e45f46e3434/badlands-national-park-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5100 og:image:height: 2869 og:image:alt: Badlands National Park og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts twitter:description: In defiance of Donald Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14a43f47fd4eaca9/6988b70f86f68e45f46e3434/badlands-national-park-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts in Defiance of Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:46 PM UTCPublished: Jan 24, 2017 9:24 PM UTC  Badlands National Park Badlands National ParkEducation Images—UIG/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:46 PM UTCPublished: Jan 24, 2017 9:24 PM UTC Badlands National Park posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, sharing statistics that [might contradict](http://time.com/4581681/donald-trump-climate-change-nasa/) the beliefs of President Donald Trump’s new administration. “Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate,” the park [tweeted](https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/823978872152715265) on Tuesday. Trump has falsely called climate change a “hoax” and said he will roll back measures aimed at stopping global warming, sparking [concern among climate scientists](http://time.com/4602461/climate-change-scientists-donald-trump/). The tweets didn’t last long, and had been deleted by early Tuesday evening. > [](https://twitter.com/passantino/status/824021040166674432) The Badlands National Park tweets come after Trump’s administration [enforced a social media blackout](http://time.com/4645559/donald-trump-epa-social-media-blackout/) on the Environmental Protection Agency, barring EPA staff from publishing news releases, blog posts or social media updates. The rules also barred EPA staff from awarding new contracts or grants. Tuesday’s tweets also followed a brief suspension Friday of all National Park accounts. The U.S. Department of Interior was [ordered to suspend operations](http://fortune.com/2017/01/21/interior-department-twitter-donald-trump-inauguration/) of its Twitter accounts after the National Park Service’s official account retweeted two posts that were unflattering toward the Trump administration. One of the tweets had noted the changing language around certain issues, including climate change, on the new White House website. The tweets were later removed from the feed, and the National Park Service apologized for sharing them. The suspension appears to have been lifted in the past few days, based on social media activity on Interior Department accounts. Representatives for Badlands National Park did not immediately respond to a request for comment. > [](https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/823978720042110978) > [](https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/823978872152715265) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/"},"headline":"A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts in Defiance of Donald Trump","datePublished":"2017-01-24T21:24:29.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T12:46:33.000Z","description":"President Trump has called climate change a \"hoax\"","url":"https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/","keywords":["climate change","White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14a43f47fd4eaca9/6988b70f86f68e45f46e3434/badlands-national-park-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14a43f47fd4eaca9/6988b70f86f68e45f46e3434/badlands-national-park-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Badlands National Park","caption":"South Dakota, Wall, Badlands National Park, Loop Road, Badlands Monument Entrance Sign","creditText":"Education Images—UIG/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/climate-change/","name":"climate change"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-change-tweets/","name":"A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts in Defiance of Donald Trump"}}]}] ```