The Badlands Twitter account is the ultimate climate rebel

In this age of "alternative facts," a new guardian of truth has emerged: the people behind National Park Service Twitter accounts. 

The Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota fired off tweets about climate change on Tuesday amid gag orders levied on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency that prevent scientists and employees there from using social media and discussing research. 

Those gag orders don't apply to the National Park Service, though it's not a stretch to say that they soon might. In fact, as this story was being written, the below tweets were deleted. Read more...