Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive It's a Podcast from Marketplace.

In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new,

the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

The world's changing climate makes tropical storms more dangerous.

In Bangladesh, they've gotten good at giving people an early warning, which is saving lives.

You can have the best predictions, but if you're not able to communicate that information to the people who need it,

then you're a little warning system not be as effective.

I'm Marko Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler, the climate science around hurricanes.

In Washington, there's bipartisan agreement about the China

threat but some say US policy could be smarter. Have we actually been able to

change China's behavior in any way. No.

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