Season 1: We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century

Hot Mess is a PBS Digital Studios show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves. Our hosts are Miriam Nielsen, Talia Buford, and Joe Hanson, from It's Okay to Be Smart.

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

Hot Mess

Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

The majority of greenhouse gas emissions are now coming from large developing countries.

Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Beef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?

Hot Mess

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

What can we actually do to make beef less bad for the environment?

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

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess What If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?

Hot Mess

What If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?

We have enough fossil fuels to make Earth intolerable so we must not burn them all.

What If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?

Hot Mess

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

Can we learn anything from almost fixing the hole in the ozone layer that will help us?

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

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?

Hot Mess

Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?

Building stronger relationships might be one of the best ways to prepare for a flood.

Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess What the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves

Hot Mess

What the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves

What can the adorable pika teach humans about adapting to global warming?

What the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess What Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?

Hot Mess

What Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?

What can you do to make a meaningful difference in decreasing the carbon footprint?

What Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Why We Confuse Weather and Climate

Hot Mess

Why We Confuse Weather and Climate

Our experience of weather can have a big effect on how we view climate change.

Why We Confuse Weather and Climate

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess Why Climate Change is Unjust

Hot Mess

Why Climate Change is Unjust

Climate change affects humans in every corner of the world.

Why Climate Change is Unjust

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess What Happened to Nuclear Power?

Hot Mess

What Happened to Nuclear Power?

Nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide.

What Happened to Nuclear Power?

Video thumbnail: Hot Mess We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century

Hot Mess

We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century

We've known about climate change for awhile, but why do we find it hard to act?

We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century