NBC News discusses why the U.S. military is terrified of climate change. It’s done more damage than Iranian missiles. Among the Pentagon’s fears is that weather-related catastrophes could mean it has to commit most of its resources to disaster relief missions.
In a few hours of extraordinary violence on Oct. 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle was utterly devastated, with 95 percent of its buildings severely damaged or destroyed. At that time, Tyndall served as the home base for nearly one-third of the Air Force’s fleet of ultra-valuable F-22 Raptor stealth fighters. Seventeen of the irreplaceable aircraft had been crammed into a hanger in advance of the tide of destruction — only for chunks of the hangar’s roof to collapse on top of them.