Defense One's Patrick Tucker helps explain the U.S. military's growing climate security portfolio (at the 4:05 mark); John Conger of the Center for Climate and Security joins us later (at 14:28), followed by Gabriel Collins of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (at 23:38).

Extra reading:

• Read Conger's Defense One op-ed here;
• Find the report Gabe co-authored on U.S.-China competition (PDF), here;
• Read more from Tucker's interview with Richard Kidd, the deputy assistant defense secretary for environment and energy resilience, here.

Find a transcript of this episode here.