West Point prof fired for continuing to teach human causes of climate change
randycupertino
14 points
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August 31, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
msie
Where are the MAGA complaining about censorship and indoctrination now?
defrost
It's a shame it came to a showdown: According to Kalkstein, 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. There's a missed opportunity there to just teach atmospheric physics, ocean and land temperature relationships to climate cells, the properties of the atmosphere and how various parameters have changed with atmospheric tests leaving fading signatures, etc. All of this has military bearing, submarine tracking, radioactive material tracking and monitoring, etc. Throw the right papers in and there's no real need to lead students by the nose and point at humans for increased insulation factors over the past century .. it's right there in the data.