Biden focuses on climate change, young voters in Hanover visit

“It’s gigantic,” Biden said. “I put climate change at the top of my list. It’s the single biggest existential threat out there. We have, probably, 10 years to keep the changes from being irreversible. … The floods in the Midwest this summer rendered seven of our military bases useless for a while. … When President (Barack) Obama and I were first elected and we were briefed by the Defense Department, the first thing they wanted to talk about, the single greatest threat to national security, was climate change. They showed us the projections for mass migrations, and today we’re seeing more mass migrations since anytime since World War II.”