Climate Change: Pentagon Pushed to Put Price Tag on Climate Vulnerability

Jul 10, 2019 | Dean Scott, Bloomberg Environment
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The U.S. military already knows it faces increasing vulnerabilities from a warming planet, from Virginia naval installations facing more frequent flooding to Air Force bases on the West Coast that wildfires have threatened. What it doesn’t have is a price tag for replacing buildings, airfields, and other structures vulnerable to what the Pentagon calls “changing future conditions” over the next decades.