The Weekly Hoon: Passing 1.5 degrees, the rise of Q & the Mecca agreement

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics with special guests, including: \* International affairs expert Dr Geoffrey Miller, the author of the Gulf States Insights substack, talking about the recent Mecca Agreement; and, \* **Andy Reisinger**, an Associate Professor at **Australian National University**, and lead author of the mitigation chapter of a new **UN Environment Programme (UNEP)**report titled: *Limiting Overshoot*, which finds the climate is set to overshoot the 1.5°C of global warming the world agreed not to go over, and will need to cool it down ASAP. Regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman took a break this week, but will be back next year. During the podcast, we pointed to Geoffrey’s most recent piece: Also, Peter referred to this New Yorker podcast during the discussion: *The Hoon’s* podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by **Simon Josey.** The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. *(This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues.* *Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free.* Ngā mihi nui. Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe