Lawsuit Accuses West Point of Firing Professor over Climate Change Instruction
The lawsuit says West Point barred a professor from teaching climate science and later refused to renew his contract after he objected.
- On Monday, West Point geography professor Adam Kalkstein filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Military Academy, alleging leadership violated his First Amendment rights by banning instruction on human-caused climate change.
- Following a September 2025 geography department meeting, academy officials 'expressly forbade' teaching anthropogenic climate change and threatened to eliminate the entire department if faculty leaked the directive, according to the lawsuit.
- After 17 years teaching climatology, Kalkstein refused to 'omit a massive, fundamental, essential component' of his curriculum, prompting leadership to terminate his contract citing 'poor character and temperament.'
- Kalkstein seeks reinstatement and damages in the lawsuit, while West Point responded Wednesday that officials 'are aware of the allegations and take such matters seriously.'
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes to reshape service academies by scaling back civilian professors, as a Pentagon memo argues that academies are infected by 'civilian academic norms' diluting military focus.
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West Point climate professor says he was fired for refusing to ‘defy science’
Kalkstein says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy.
West Point Professor Fired for Refusing to Lie About Climate Change
A science professor says he was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, for refusing to ignore the human causes of climate change, and is now suing the institution in federal court.Dr. Adam Kalkstein, a professor of geography, told The New York Times that the dean of West Point’s academic board, Brigadier General Shane Reeves, in a meeting last year ordered him to remove everything about human contributions to climate chang…
West Point climate professor says he was fired for refusing to ‘defy science’ - The Boston Globe
After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, Dr. Adam Kalkstein said he was ordered to cut information about the human causes of climate change, according to a lawsuit.
Lawsuit: West Point Professor Was Forced Out For Objecting To Order To Stop Teaching Climate Change
Gothamist reports: A former tenured professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point says the school ordered faculty to stop teaching about anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change, then pushed him out after he objected, according to a federal lawsuit. Adam Kalkstein, a geography and climate science professor at West Point for more than 17 years, filed the suit against the academy and three members of its leadership in the U.S. Distric…
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