Employees from several United States government agencies have formed a network of unofficial rogue Twitter accounts in open defiance of what they see as President Donald Trump's attempts to gag the federal climate change research and other science-related issues.

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Using Trump's favorite method of communication, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, and other agencies have set up private Twitter accounts with the logos and names of their parent agencies to protest the numerous restrictions they view as censorship.

The scientists reportedly plan to use the Twitter accounts to provide information that the Trump administration is attempting to curtail.

"Can't wait for President Trump to call us 'fake news,'" an anonymous National Park Service employee posted on the newly opened Twitter account, @AltNatParkService.

"You (Trump) can take away our official twitter, but you'll never take away our free time!" the tweet went on to say.

The @RogueNasa had an introductory disclaimer which described it as the unofficial "resistance" team of NASA.

The account urged readers to follow it "for science and climate news and facts."

The appearance of the rogue social media accounts comes in response to internal directives sent to several government agencies by the Trump administration.

Last week, US Internal Department workers were prohibited from posting on Twitter after one of them re-tweeted posts about the low attendance during Trump's inauguration.

The staff was ordered to curb dissemination of information to the public.

The restrictions have strengthened fears that Trump, a known climate change skeptic, is intent on eliminating federally-backed research to prove that fossil fuel emissions and other human activities are huge contributors to global warming.

The resistance movement was catalyzed on Tuesday when several climate-change related posts appeared on the official Twitter account of Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

The tweets were later deleted, with a Park Service official later saying that they had been posted by a former employee who is no longer allowed to access the account.

Within hours after the incident, "resistance" accounts began springing up.