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

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

Published: September 3, 2026

Duration: 46:57

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 w...