It is one thing for MAGA to think that politics is more important than governance, but, it is not okay to remove protects for the military that is supposed to protect the people who pay their salaries.
Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera (click here) knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy.
Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65-pound pack on a sweltering hike in Quantico, Virginia. Years later in Afghanistan, Rivera drove a truck in temperatures nearing 120 degrees. But she was ready. She’d taken a mechanics course — twice — to make sure she could fix the truck’s air conditioning if it failed.
She knew extreme heat could incapacitate her Marines. “They need water and good temps like everybody,” she said.
Across the U.S. military, climate change isn’t a distant threat. It’s a daily challenge. The fallout from a warming planet has hit the military hard, sidelining more than 10,000 troops since 2018, flooding bases and undermining everything from runways to nuclear readiness.
Extreme weather is battering installations from Guam to North Carolina and fueling instability in regions overseas where American forces may be called to intervene....
Department of Defense
2024-2027
Forward written by Lloyd J. Austin, III
And why would such plans be necessary?
October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025
Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera (click here) knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy.
Early in her military career, she collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying a 65-pound pack on a sweltering hike in Quantico, Virginia. Years later in Afghanistan, Rivera drove a truck in temperatures nearing 120 degrees. But she was ready. She’d taken a mechanics course — twice — to make sure she could fix the truck’s air conditioning if it failed.
She knew extreme heat could incapacitate her Marines. “They need water and good temps like everybody,” she said.
Across the U.S. military, climate change isn’t a distant threat. It’s a daily challenge. The fallout from a warming planet has hit the military hard, sidelining more than 10,000 troops since 2018, flooding bases and undermining everything from runways to nuclear readiness.
Extreme weather is battering installations from Guam to North Carolina and fueling instability in regions overseas where American forces may be called to intervene....
The geography professor is the exact person that is best to teach the realities of the climate crisis. He was teaching facts for 17 years. West Point had no right to slink into the dark ages because of incompetence at the highest offices of the land.
27 August 2026
By Richard Luscombe
The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, (ciick here) the US army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims.
Dr Adam Kalkstein, a civilian professor of geography at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a testy meeting with Brig Gen Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point’s academic board, the court filing said.
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.
It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the constitution”, he said....
The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, (ciick here) the US army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims.
Dr Adam Kalkstein, a civilian professor of geography at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a testy meeting with Brig Gen Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point’s academic board, the court filing said.
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.
It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the constitution”, he said....
