Hot Mess

RTÉ

5.0 (79)
DOCUMENTARY
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Measuring the gap between Ireland's climate aspirations and climate actions.

21/05/2025

Ep 30 - Climate Action Plan

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 to do. Nobody else agrees. This programme measures the gap between what we have to do and what we are actually getting done.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 min
14/05/2025

Ep 29 - Shipping

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 business as usual, by 2050 they will do more global warming combined than agriculture. It turns out there are surprisingly simple things the shipping industry could do to clean up its act, but they chose not to.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 min
07/05/2025

Ep 28 - Migration

As the world gets warmer how may climate refugees will arrive in Ireland?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 min
30/04/2025

Ep 27 - AMOC

The evidence for and against the Atlantic's overturning current reaching a tipping point this century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 min
23/04/2025

Ep 26 - Has the Jet Stream lost its way?

Has the key shaper of Ireland's weather been knocked off course by climate change?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

23 min
16/04/2025

Ep 25 - Methane

Does the programme for government rely on bad science for reducing methane emissions from farming?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 min
24/07/2024

Ep 24 – Our world at 1.5

Because temperatures went above 1.5 degrees of additional warming, 2023 and 2024 provided a look into our climate future. What do extreme weather events in the last year tells us about what the planet will look like in ten year’s time?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 min
17/07/2024

Ep 23 – Net Zero

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 speaks to one of the few people with right mix of skills to make an informed assessment of this generation’s chances of saving humankind.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

22 min

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79 Ratings

A helpful reality check

05/12/2022

1300steps

Just listened to episode 4, my first, and yes Philip can be a doom merchant but I feel he was presenting the facts of fire risks in Irish forests and the need for more data, more modelling and out of the box solutions. A must-listen. More generally the podcasts reveal the real-life gaps in government planning and potentially jeopardising our must-achieve 2030 green objectives.
NB

27/08/2022

AMH268KY

Rigorously researched, nuanced. Conversations with experts who challenge long held views with scientific evidence. Policy on this subject needs to be approached in this way. A must for anyone with a passing interest in the Irish response to climate change.
Hot Mess

22/08/2022

Paddy2paths

Well researched and delivered. Informative and thought provoking. I listened to all episodes and will do again
Existential listening

17/08/2022

Cearbhall

Professional, entertaining, critical - appreciate the great work and the passion to alert us to act against a relentless tide of apathy. If you don’t want to sit on an ever rising fence, then listen to this and take action.