A former NASA employee says the agency's output of information about climate change has suffered due to “fear and anxiety” about what might happen under the Trump administration.

“NASA's talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true,” Laura Tenenbaum, former NASA science communicator, told The Guardian. “People inside the agency are concerned Trump will cut climate science funding. There is a fear and anxiety there and the outcome has been chaos.”

Tenenbaum, who left the agency in October after working there for a decade, said she was warned to stop using the term “global warming” on social media and was restricted from speaking to the media because of her focus on climate change.

The former employee said an “arduous review process” was put in place for every post across the space agency’s various social media platforms shortly after Trump’s inauguration.

“I was told verbally by media relations it was because with Trump as president, climate change is now a sensitive subject,” she said. “There was confusion about what to do now we have a president who doesn’t believe in climate change. Everyone was scrambling. It was chaos.”

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The Guardian said it found a significant drop in NASA’s posts on climate change since Trump was elected. During 2016, the space agency posted frequently on climate change, with a peak of 122 posts during August of that year on its Facebook page.

In January 2017, there were only 53 Facebook posts on NASA's page, a number the agency hasn’t come close to hitting since the president’s inauguration.

However, the posts made on space agency’s various platforms remain consistent with research that points to a warming planet.

A NASA spokesman also told The Guardian there has been “no policy change about how we communicate out science to the American public."

“NASA Communications has not received any directive to change how we communicate about agency research, which includes climate change,” he added.

“The frequency of blogposts on climate.nasa.gov has always varied depending on personnel availability and other factors including mission activities (launches, expeditions in the field, etc).”

President Trump has long questioned climate change, even saying that it was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.”

Last December, the president also tweeted during a period of cold weather that “perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming."