Science and Nature

Hot Mess

Hot Mess is a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves. Premiering April 19th, 2018!

Are You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells

9m 45s

The conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change and inspire people to do something about it has always been "don't scare people". At least until recently. In the past couple years climate scientists and climate journalists have started talking in scarier and more worst case terms than ever before. Why? And is this a good thing? I talked to author David Wallace-Wells to learn more.

Episodes

  • Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

    S1 E11 - 4m 15s

    Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed the climate. But since the mid-2000s, an interesting shift has occurred. The majority of greenhouse gas emissions are now coming from large developing countries.

  • Beef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Beef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?

    S1 E10 - 4m 16s

    Beef production emits more greenhouse gases than basically anything else we eat, so let’s look at the scale and impact of our bovine pals - and importantly, what we can actually do to make beef less bad.

  • Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?

    S1 E8 - 4m 17s

    We don’t hear much about the hole in the ozone layer anymore. That’s because we’ve all but fixed it, thanks to consumer choices and a massive international agreement called the Montreal Protocol. Can we learn anything from this environmental success story that will help us fix climate change?

  • Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?

    S1 E7 - 5m 25s

    Climate change is amplifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heatwaves and other disasters. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of how best to prepare for this stuff? Moving inland? Buying flood insurance? Stockpiling water? Building stronger relationships might not be high on that list, but maybe it should be.

  • Why We Confuse Weather and Climate: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Why We Confuse Weather and Climate

    S1 E4 - 4m 40s

    Weather and climate are very different. But our experience of weather can have a big effect on how we view climate change. Why is that?

  • Why Climate Change is Unjust: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Why Climate Change is Unjust

    S1 E3 - 4m 53s

    What do you think of when you hear the words “climate change?” Chances are, you might think of sad nature, somewhere far away. But climate change also affects humans, in every corner of the world, including the corner where you live, and where I live. It impacts the people and places we see everyday, and it will impact some of us more than others.

  • What Happened to Nuclear Power?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What Happened to Nuclear Power?

    S1 E2 - 4m 17s

    Splitting the atom once promised to be the carbon-free energy source of the future. But today, nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide. What happened?

  • We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century

    S1 E1 - 4m 43s

    We’ve known about the greenhouse effect for nearly 200 years and about climate change for more than a century, but we’ve had a hard time acting because our brains aren’t a good match for a problem this big.

Extras + Features

  • Welcome to Hot Mess!: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Welcome to Hot Mess!

    39s

    Hot Mess is a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves.

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