Hot Mess
Episodes
Ep 30 - Climate Action Plan
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland has a Climate Action Plan that the government maintains will succeed in reducing our Greenhouse Gases in line with what we are legally obliged...
Ep 29 - Shipping
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
90% of everything imported into Ireland arrives by ship. That's a thousand ships a month docking in Irish ports. If shipping and aviation continue bus...
Ep 28 - Migration
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the world gets warmer how may climate refugees will arrive in Ireland?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 27 - AMOC
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The evidence for and against the Atlantic's overturning current reaching a tipping point this century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Ep 26 - Has the Jet Stream lost its way?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has the key shaper of Ireland's weather been knocked off course by climate change?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 25 - Methane
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does the programme for government rely on bad science for reducing methane emissions from farming?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 24 – Our world at 1.5
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Because temperatures went above 1.5 degrees of additional warming, 2023 and 2024 provided a look into our climate future. What do extreme weather even...
Ep 23 – Net Zero
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will climate action work? If we spend trillions on a Green Transition what are the chances we will get Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050? Philip speak...
Ep 22 – Playing God
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Geo-engineering the planet to reduce warming our best hope or playing with fire? Incorrect speculation that Dubai caused massive flooding in April ...
Ep 21 – Slow Waters
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new project to take the sting out of flooding. With so much extra rain in our future we are going to have to start adapting now. But most of these p...
Ep 20 – Just Stop Oil
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are climate protestors just students acting the maggot or successors to the Sufragettes and Civil Rights movement? In an extended interview with Roger...
Ep 19 - Rain Rain Rain
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Was 10 months of rain from July to April our new normal? The world temporarily went beyond the 1.5 degrees of additional warming we have committed to ...
Ep 18 - Their world will be what we make it
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What the latest research says about how climate change will shape the planet for those alive now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 17 - The wheels on the bus
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Philip comes up with a plan to save the worldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 16 - Living on a prayer
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if we can't deliver our offshore wind targets on time?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 15 - Why are we still flying?
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New research shows the increased climate warming pollution the aviation sector doesn't want to talk about.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Ep 14 - Good Cop/Bad Cop
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What was and wasn't agreed at the global climate summitSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 13 - The Iniskea Prospect
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Should Ireland leave all its oil and gas reserves in the ground or drill to achieve energy independence?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Ep 12 - Getting Hotter
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What was the cabinet sub committee on climate change told by Ireland's leading climate scientist at a recent private briefing?See omnystudio.com/liste...
Ep. 11: It's not you, it's me
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Might the biggest obstacle to effective climate action be us?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 10: Megawatts and Megabytes
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The things we got wrong about Data Centres and how they could be made a part of Ireland's climate solution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
Ep 9: Buy Rent Retreat
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What upheaval on Antarctica's ice sheets means for the future of Ireland's coastal communities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 8: There's batteries in them there hills
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Should we allow mining for lithium along the Wicklow Way? Can we afford not to?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 7: Fossil Fools
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How long will it take Ireland get off Russian gas and oil, and then all gas and oil?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ep 6: Nuclear Fallout
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did the success of the anti nuclear protests of the 1970s tie the hands of those trying to tackle the climate crisis in the 2020s?See omnystudio.com/l...
Ep5: The revolution will be delayed
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does the absence of a national Hydrogen Plan mean Ireland is letting a golden opportunity to cut emissions slip? And in the absence of that plan, are ...
Ep 4: In a puff of smoke
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate Change means wildfires in Ireland are going to increase in frequency and intensity. We reveal for the first time the CO2 emissions created by ...
Ep 3: The Last Drop
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The debate about cutting emissions from agriculture is dogged by dispute, division and denial of science. Is there a way of finding common ground betw...
Ep 2: That sinking feeling
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Might a growing protest campaign against Bord Na Mona's rewetting of bogs derail one of Ireland's most important climate actions before its begun?See ...
Ep 1: We've got a bit of a wind problem
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A major wrinkle in meeting Ireland's renewable energy targets. Are wealthy vested interests standing in the way of vital national infrastructure or is...
Trailer - Hot Mess
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 available October 26th. Presented by Philip Boucher-Hayes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.