#WestPoint’s only #climate #scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of #climatechange
According to #AdamKalkstein, who taught #army cadets there for 17 years, he told the dean at a November 2025 meeting that an order to cut from the curriculum content about the human causes of climate change was immoral and potentially illegal.
It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the constitution”, he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/west-point-climate-scientist-fired
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“A tenured professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point claims he was fired after pushing back on a presidential directive to ‘defy science’ and stop teaching cadets that climate change had ‘primarily human causes, something contrary to the ideology of the Commander in Chief and forbidden at West Point.’”