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.

Stop me if you've heard me say this before, but figuring out this economy, it's hard.

From American public media, this is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdell. It is Monday, today, the seventh day of October.

Good as always to have you long everybody. One way to think

about the monthly unemployment report that we get the first Friday of every

month is that it's kind of the economic data gift that keeps on giving,

especially the September report that we got end of last week.

It was a big surprise, a good surprise, we covered that part, way more jobs than anybody had been expecting. But let's focus for just a second here, not

on the good surprise, but on the fact that it was a surprise at all. Try though they

might, people whose job it is to gauge what might be happening with this labor market

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