MSNBC MSNBC Live With Velshi and Ruhle September 16, 2019 17:47:00
Training exercises on u.s. bases. 2018 alone, 2792 cases of heat stroke or heat exhaustion were reported. that is up from more than 1700 in 2008. that is a very big statistical increase. now, those heat illnesses add up. the pentagon estimates that it spent nearly $1 billion in the last decade treating the effects of heat exposure and it is not just the troops being hit by warmer weathers, the pentagon report waurned that in fairbank, thawed permafrost decreased the structural stability of infrastructure. these are just some, there are many. a 2007 report commissioned by the pentagon warns abo...