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.

What shoppers really want is some dis-inflation.

I'm David Brancaccio in New York.

We know from Friday that hiring is going strong into the fall, but is this driving up prices?

Later this morning, we'll get a big inflation reading the Consumer Price Index for September.

At last check, inflation was running at... reading the Consumer Price Index for September.

At last check inflation was running at 2.5% annually, down from the 9% back in 2022 caused by

pandemic distortions of the job market and supply chains.

But lower inflation is still inflation, and for instance, the price index of cereal and

baked goods is 28% higher now than it was the summer before the pandemic.

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