Our military bases are not ready for climate change

"We often don’t associate climate change with threats to America’s military, yet Hurricane Michael showed us how very real that threat is. While the storm wrecked thousands of homes and lives in the Florida Panhandle, it also caused hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage to vital national security assets at Tyndall Air Force Base outside of Panama City. The assessment is ongoing, but the Air Force reports that, “The flight line is devastated. Every building has severe damage. Many buildings are a complete loss.”

As a former Air Force commander, I am deeply alarmed about this growing threat to our military installations, to some of our costliest and most important military assets, and to the men and women who serve us in uniform".