Donald Trump campaigned on the idea that climate change does not exist—calling global warming "bullshit" and referring to it as a conspiracy created by China.

Now, it has only been 10 days since he became the 45th President of the United States, and in that short time, he has already used the powers of the presidency to silence those within the government who disagree with him.

Internal e-mails from the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture that were obtained by news agencies indicate that the Trump administration is gagging people at these government agencies, forbidding them from tweeting, going on any social media, or issuing press releases about their science.

But the people who work for these agencies and others within the United States government are fighting back—using Twitter to share provable facts that the Twitter president is trying to suppress.

The twitter account for the Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, tweeted out a series of facts about global warming—discussing the effect that the Industrial Revolution has had on the level of carbon dioxide in the air and the acidity of the ocean, and that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at the highest it's been in the last 650,000 years.

Officials from Golden Gate National Park Service in California used their park's Twitter account to point out that 2016 was the hottest year on record for the third year in a row.

Climate scientists at NASA took to Twitter to share the fact that December 2016's average global temperature was the third highest on record, and that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has risen significantly since 1950.

It is even possible that the United States Department of Defence is using twitter to take a "shot" at the new commander-in-chief—posting a link to a website, with the caption "Social media postings sometimes provide an important window into a person's #mentalheath".

For those in Canada, we are familiar with our leaders gagging our government's scientists.  During the Harper administration, the federal government took drastic steps to prevent departmental researchers from speaking about their studies without ministerial permission—and in several instances that permission was refused.

Politically, the muzzling of scientists might have worked out well for Stephen Harper—over time he became Canada's 6th longest-serving Prime Minister.  But the suppression of fact and knowledge may have served a great blow to Canadian society. "The cutbacks to scientific staff in the public service were draconian.. resulting in a loss of a generation of skills, knowledge and capacity that were there to serve the public."  The quality of public information declined, the quality of scientific progress dropped significantly, and Canada's scientific community was severely weakened.

While these tweets from these American government departments and agencies might seem insignificant, their continued sharing of facts is important to American society and the world—and they should not go unnoticed.

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