West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change

Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution.

Some climate scientists are cautious about prematurely attributing human caused-climate change as the sole cause of the disaster that resulted in the violent flooding of Himalayan villages in Nepal this week. But other experts say it was the kind of catastrophe they’ve been warning about for years.

A West Point professor is suing the academy, alleging officials fired him after ordering instructors to stop teaching about anthropogenic 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,

Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

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