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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

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

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?