Laura: Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast, where comedian me, Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her science nerdy younger normal, though.
Laura: Brother Ron.
Laura: Hello, Brother Ron.
Ron: It's me, Brother Ron.
Laura: Oh, the monk of podcasts.
Ron: Oh, peace be with you.
Laura: How was your walk today, Ron?
Ron: It was lovely.
Ron: I went to the village of Slad.
Laura: I've never heard of it.
Ron: It's near Stroud.
Laura: I've heard of Stroud.
Ron: It's where Laurie Lee is from.
Laura: Laurie Lee, that sounds familiar.
Ron: An author.
Ron: I'd never heard of them before today, but deleted correspondent of the podcast Matt, his favorite author, I think.
Ron: Yeah, we went for a nice walk.
Ron: It's only like a bit of a five k, but yeah, just nice to get out.
Ron: The weather's lush.
Laura: It was very cold here today, though, and windy.
Ron: It was windy.
Ron: When the sun was on you, you were fine.
Ron: And when you were walking up a hill, you were fine.
Laura: I went to the seafront today and it was blustery.
Ron: As a friend of the podcast, Noah and I had a conversation recently, Laura, and what are your conditions for it to be a lovely day, weather wise?
Laura: Blue sky, sunshine, little to no wind, a bit of wind, a light breeze.
Ron: That's it.
Laura: I think so, because I love those days in winter.
Laura: I also love them when it's nice and hot.
Laura: But I think those are my must haves.
Ron: Yeah, no, we're very similar, it turns out.
Ron: Yeah, mine is just like, sunny, dry above five degrees.
Laura: Yeah, I don't even mind if it's really, really cold.
Laura: I love those crisp days where it's all sunny and crispy, cold, freezing.
Laura: Speaking of deleted, podcast correspondent of the podcast Max, we recorded an entire episode sort of outlining all of the latest conspiracy theories about the whole princess or Wales thing.
Laura: Now everybody's decided it's not fun anymore and gone.
Laura: She's not very well, and I mean, fair play to her.
Laura: Cancer is not very nice.
Laura: I hope she recovers very well.
Laura: We've decided not to bother releasing it because it just seems a bit outdated now.
Laura: It sort of dated itself before I got a chance to edit it.
Laura: That said, we chat quite a lot about it in this episode, so if that's going to annoy you, if you've gone into one of the everyone should be ashamed of theirselves, she's a private person camps, then probably skip this episode because it's just going to p*** you off.
Laura: But if you're like us and sort of think, nah, if you think you're a magical princess whose children were born to own everyone else's, then you're fair game to gossip about.
Laura: Hey, listen up.
Laura: It's a lot of fun.
Ron: We should maybe do a Patreon tier.
Ron: Like, just 45 quid and you can have that episode.
Laura: The thing is, though, this is what's annoyed me so intensely about this whole way.
Laura: The conversation has gone now with everybody going, the nation's shame.
Laura: Like, she would never have had to mention it if everybody hadn't bullied her into it.
Laura: And you're like, well, she still didn't have to mention it then.
Laura: But the whole point is, their appearance is all they are.
Laura: And it's like, okay, if that's your theory.
Laura: She literally only had to announce it because we were all behaving like children.
Laura: Why did Charles tell us about his then?
Laura: Nobody asked.
Laura: Nobody.
Laura: Not a word.
Laura: Why did all of their weddings get televised?
Laura: Nobody asked.
Laura: Because they shove it down our throats.
Laura: That's who they are.
Laura: That's the whole point of who they are.
Laura: And so, anyway, I won't get up on my soapbox, but, man, it's annoyed me this week.
Laura: Everybody's suddenly going all poface like, we've been very naughty little bunnies.
Laura: F*** off.
Ron: I haven't really seen much of that.
Ron: I think because I'm the only person I know that's been talking about it.
Laura: See, I've messed my algorithm up so much that now the videos come out like the one that they've released of her sort of saying what's been going on and what's happening.
Laura: All that I've got on my feed now is people talking about how that is a deep, fake AI and it's not real.
Laura: And then there was one guy today that was looking at who was like, actually, I kind of work with this stuff a lot.
Laura: I don't think it is AI.
Laura: This is why the ring sort of glitches.
Laura: It's auto blurring or something, or, like, motion fade.
Laura: And lots of people are like, it's not AI, but it is in a green screen in a studio.
Laura: And it's just like, I love that.
Laura: Even this hasn't really.
Laura: It feels like it's gone back to how it was before now.
Laura: You know, when I explained to you, I was like, it used to be, like, this weird subset of online people, and then it got mainstream for a little bubble, and now it's gone back to being a weird subset.
Laura: It feels like it's gone back to that again.
Ron: That's fun.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I mean, I've not really seen any of the AI stuff, but I a little bit don't believe it, but we should stop talking about.
Laura: I mean, unless it's what the people demand.
Laura: Let us know, let us know.
Ron: Everybody.
Ron: 45 pounds.
Ron: You can have that episode.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Now, the actual lesson today.
Laura: I absolutely loved this episode.
Laura: There's quite a lot of pre bluster at the top.
Laura: We do f*** about for quite a while, but then once we get into the episode, this episode has genuinely, I think, changed my life.
Laura: It's the most positive I felt about the whole world for about ten years.
Ron: And not only the content I thought was great, it's also one of my favorite episodes.
Ron: Just.
Ron: I think we were really funny.
Laura: I think we were.
Laura: I did fall asleep for a bit of it, listening back to it today in order to do these intros.
Laura: Outros.
Laura: I fell asleep for the middle bit, but then I woke up to lots of ding sounds because I was a genius in the quiz.
Laura: So.
Laura: Yeah, also, hey, there's a live episode out this Friday.
Laura: It's the live episode that we recorded in Leicester back in February.
Laura: It goes out on the Patreon on this Friday.
Laura: Let me just tell you, you're going to want to hear it if you've been toying with the idea of joining the Patreon and just like, oh, I don't know when, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Laura: There's like a load of episodes up there now that you can binge.
Laura: There's lots of stuff you can get into.
Laura: The discord is always delightful and the live episode is something you're going to want to hear.
Ron: No comment.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Enjoy chemistry beyond the syllabus, kind of.
Laura: All right, it's 93.
Laura: The big 93.
Laura: Oh, live episode is going out this Friday, Ron.
Ron: Ooh, it was a fun one.
Laura: Lester festival.
Laura: Join the Patreon if you want to listen.
Laura: You don't want to miss this live episode.
Ron: Lesterville.
Ron: Ye bye.
Laura: Also, yeah, cricket episodes out.
Laura: There's so much good stuff.
Ron: We make a lot of great content.
Laura: We do.
Laura: I was going to ask you if you're still enjoying it.
Laura: I feel like we've both not really done any promo for it in the last two weeks.
Laura: I just like recording it.
Laura: I don't really want to make loads of tweets about it.
Ron: Yeah, what we need is a bunch of these c**** to sign up to the Patreon so we can just pay someone to do promotions.
Laura: Yeah, that'd be nice.
Laura: Hey, ten people.
Laura: Just do it.
Ron: Just f****** do it.
Ron: Your slags.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: And also well done for being a slag.
Laura: It's hard in this day and age.
Ron: Life's hard for the slags.
Laura: Really hard.
Laura: Really hard chemistry.
Laura: Oh, no.
Laura: Our first chemistry since the end of the world.
Laura: Ron, I've got a real itchy bit on the palm of my hand.
Ron: Isn't that a sign of hairy palms?
Ron: Are they itchy because of the hair?
Laura: I don't think so.
Laura: That's all on my b***.
Laura: I won't tell that story.
Laura: Ron, do you think Kate Middleton and William are going to get divorced?
Laura: Do you think they'll be divorced by the time this episode goes out?
Laura: Do you think we'll finally have an answer?
Ron: Do you think you can divorce a dead person?
Laura: I know you keep saying she's dead, but she's not dead, is she?
Ron: Why wouldn't she be dead?
Laura: I just don't think she's dead because I think if she was dead, they'd be saying she was dead, but they'd be lying about how she was dead.
Ron: I don't think so.
Ron: I think it's been too soon since they last caused a fuss about someone dying, so they're embarrassed.
Laura: Of.
Ron: Oh, I don't care.
Ron: Sepsis or something.
Laura: Oh, Ron, I don't think that's a nice death.
Laura: Says nothing's a nice death at that age.
Ron: All right, a piano falling on too.
Laura: Many cartoons as a child.
Laura: It's always pianos falling on heads that kills people.
Laura: Whack whack magnets.
Ron: Whack whack magnets.
Ron: Definitely on the episode title list there already.
Ron: I didn't of me saying no, because.
Laura: It'S a you edit, so you'll only do two.
Ron: That's not true.
Laura: Look at those little cats.
Laura: You don't do anywhere near as many as I do.
Ron: Well, no, because we don't really need that many, do we?
Laura: But they make for good social media content.
Laura: Can you please put those videos out also?
Ron: Go for it.
Ron: I sent them to you.
Laura: I'm fine with them.
Laura: I'm really happy.
Laura: I've watched them all.
Laura: I think they're good.
Laura: Please put them out.
Ron: Then why didn't you put them out?
Laura: Because you've got them.
Ron: You've got them too.
Ron: I sent them to you.
Laura: Not all of them.
Laura: You just sent me all of them.
Ron: I sent you all the ones that I've edited.
Laura: Okay, we'll edit some more and start putting them out.
Laura: Please.
Ron: I'll edit them and send them to you.
Laura: You must cancel your Patreon.
Laura: If Ron hasn't put out some videos in the next three weeks.
Ron: Do it.
Ron: You need the money more than me.
Laura: Fine, I'll stop sending you your half.
Ron: Fine.
Ron: That would be bad for me.
Laura: Actually, it would be also bad for me.
Laura: I have a child and a dog to feed.
Laura: Oh, my God, Ron, the other day, you know, the day I knew from Mackie's b******* that she needed a poo.
Laura: Oh, look at you having cucumber water, you fancy pants.
Ron: Yeah, because I don't have my bottle.
Laura: What?
Laura: And that means you have to put.
Ron: Cucumber in it to get me to drink more water.
Laura: How else will people know that you're so bougie?
Ron: It's good, though.
Ron: The cucumber just highlights the water in such a way.
Ron: Delicious.
Laura: So the other night, right, boys, or mamma mia, I was asleep and I woke up and there was such a bad smell, and I was like, what has happened here, Mackie?
Ron: And you looked at Tom's b******* and saw he was about.
Laura: Squash it out like a cartoon geezer.
Ron: What?
Ron: Like a.
Laura: Fog on Legon.
Ron: Who do you think foghorn Legorn is?
Laura: He's a rooster.
Ron: Yeah, but he's not a geezer.
Laura: No, but he's from the deep south.
Laura: He could be.
Laura: He could be a geezer.
Laura: No, that's Tom Parry you're doing.
Ron: No, Tom Parry is doing Foghorn Leghorn.
Laura: No, he's not.
Laura: He's doing Leicester yourself, boy.
Ron: You can't be doing things like.
Laura: Could be.
Laura: He could be a geezer, though.
Laura: He's just a deep south geezer.
Ron: No, geezers are from London.
Laura: You can be a geezer and be from anywhere.
Ron: That's not true.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: When it's a spurt, is it a geyser?
Ron: No, I think it is also geezer.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Anyway, Mackie had pooped in the lounge and it was so stinky, it woke me up in my bedroom upstairs.
Ron: That's because you've got a rotten dog.
Laura: Yeah, she is rotten.
Laura: She's got bad tummy at the moment because she got licked by some cows.
Ron: She got licked?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: And that gave her a bad tummy?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Why?
Laura: Well, I don't know.
Laura: I guess they've got different bacteria going on and it got in her and she's made of cotton wool.
Ron: She sucks really infuriatingly.
Ron: S***, dog.
Laura: Do you know what she loves horses.
Laura: We went and saw some horses the other day and she was the happiest I've seen her in ages just lying on the floor having her tummy nuzzled by horses.
Ron: I don't have anything to say to them.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: So, Laura, can you remember what we're going to do today?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Talk about William and f****** Kate, mate, because why have William's camp put out that press release saying that he's done the school pickup every day since she's been in, just after that photo comes out claiming to be Carol taking Kate to do the school run.
Ron: But did the Crown estate actually say that that was Kate?
Laura: No.
Laura: And the UK media won't touch it?
Ron: No, because it's not.
Ron: It's f****** Pippa.
Laura: Yeah, but then why haven't Kensington palace said that?
Ron: Because they don't have, like.
Laura: But they normally love to squash these rumours.
Laura: That's what's weird, is normally they hate this kind of speculation that anything dodge.
Ron: Is going on.
Laura: But then they'd be clamping down on it.
Laura: So we didn't think she was dead?
Ron: No, because the mystery hides the deadness.
Laura: No, it doesn't, Ron, because the mystery is, is she dead?
Laura: That's what we're talking about right now.
Ron: No.
Ron: But you don't think she's dead?
Laura: No, I don't think she's dead.
Ron: I think she's dead because I've got no skin in the game.
Ron: I don't care either way.
Laura: I haven't got skin in the game.
Laura: What do you think I am, a skin in the dame?
Laura: I got skin in the dame.
Laura: I'm fog on, leg on, see?
Laura: Skin in the dame.
Laura: Oh, no.
Laura: That is a nasty film that nobody should be watching.
Laura: I bet that's a p*** film.
Laura: I had homemade fish fingers for lunch.
Ron: I had homemade p*** for my w*** last night.
Laura: Homemade p*** is just sex.
Ron: No, it's sex that you filmed.
Laura: Oh, I would never want to film myself having sex.
Laura: No, but homemade fish fingers because it was the name of a bomb.
Laura: What are we doing today, Ron?
Laura: We're doing more end of the world stuff.
Ron: What do you mean, end of the world stuff?
Laura: It's chemistry.
Laura: Wasn't that where the world ended?
Ron: But I don't know whether you mean the end of GCSE when you're saying that, or.
Laura: No.
Laura: The end of the planet.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: We're going to.
Ron: Well, you asked to do the climate change bit.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Doesn't mean I'm not going to be reticent and cranky about it while it's happening.
Ron: So, yes, we are doing what you requested we do, and we're going to do the greenhouse gas.
Ron: We're going to cover greenhouse gases today, Laura.
Ron: 5.9.2 carbon.
Laura: You can't call the end of the world.
Ron: 5.9.25 greenhouse gases.
Ron: Now, Laura, what greenhouse gases can you name?
Laura: Water vapor.
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Carbon dioxide, methane.
Ron: Those are the three that are in the syllabus.
Ron: Can you go any further?
Laura: No, because those are the three you told me last time.
Ron: Have we already done this bit?
Laura: Yeah, I believe I literally just put the notes out today, and the bottom of my notes says, greenhouse gases, methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor.
Ron: Where did we get to?
Laura: That is the last note I made.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Because I think we started doing it.
Laura: And then I had a small meltdown.
Ron: Yeah, then you got despondent and we stopped.
Laura: Yeah, it was a good episode until that, though.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So what I said was, look, I've actually done prep for this episode.
Ron: Look at these postits in this.
Laura: That is from sword and the stone.
Ron: I'm going on a pub crawl tomorrow for World Book Day.
Laura: It's World Book day yesterday.
Ron: Yeah, but we're working yesterday, weren't I?
Ron: And also, it's for Danny Pack's birthday.
Laura: I made youngest nephew of the podcast costume for World Book day this year.
Ron: He's going as some dinosaur child, right?
Laura: Yeah, I made it nice.
Laura: I haven't seen a dinosaur hat and a dinosaur tail.
Ron: I'm going as Charlie Bucket and friend of the podcast.
Ron: Noah's going as grandpa Joe.
Laura: Oh, he'll make a great grandpa Joe.
Laura: He's all spangly.
Ron: And he does have a certain Quentin blakeness to him.
Laura: He absolutely does.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: I can't wait for his wedding.
Laura: I hope I can give him away.
Ron: He listens.
Ron: So, comment in a few weeks.
Laura: Is he a patron at the moment?
Ron: I don't know.
Laura: I stopped noticing his comings and goings once the Patreon got busy enough that I didn't need to worry about individuals.
Ron: Who are you lying to?
Ron: Bragging that the Patreon's any kind of busy?
Laura: Like over 100.
Laura: That's pretty good.
Ron: But we've been over 100 for a while.
Laura: Oh, yeah.
Laura: But I don't think we push it enough.
Laura: And people don't have any money.
Laura: And it's not like two p off national insurance helped anybody out, did it?
Ron: That's like 450 quid to the average worker.
Laura: Is it?
Ron: That's a lot.
Ron: That's 150 Patreons.
Laura: Sign up then, you bastards.
Laura: Jeremy Hunt practically mandated that you should.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Anyway, so we were going to talk through some of the climate stuff, but peppered in with some interesting facts by this book that I'm currently reading, which is called not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie.
Laura: Wait, you haven't finished reading it?
Ron: No, I'm 100 pages at the end.
Laura: It just says not, and it's all not real.
Laura: Or there's a twist.
Ron: It's not that type of book.
Laura: Might be you don't know.
Laura: You haven't finished it.
Ron: It's not that type of book.
Ron: Laura, grow up.
Ron: I shall never for once grow up.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: No.
Ron: Do it.
Laura: No, I don't want to grow up.
Laura: Me and child of the podcast have a new game where we both get our tummies out and then she just runs into me and slaps her tummy into mine.
Laura: I love what a little weirdo I'm making.
Laura: There's really no one around to curb either of us, so when we're left to our own devices, it gets real weird real quick.
Laura: She can't do it so well to Tom because even kneeling down his tummy's too high.
Laura: She'll make you do it next time you see her.
Laura: When are you coming to see us?
Laura: We haven't seen you in ages.
Ron: No, you uninvited me.
Laura: I didn't uninvite you.
Laura: Did you want to come?
Ron: Well, I did.
Ron: I took a day off.
Ron: And then you invited someone else and booked a load of gigs.
Laura: I didn't invite someone else.
Laura: Someone else came.
Ron: Not true.
Laura: Totally true, Ron.
Laura: Somebody else came.
Laura: It was not my intention.
Laura: All right, then, don't come.
Laura: Don't care.
Laura: Made two weeks.
Ron: Yeah, looking forward to that.
Ron: Is that one of the times?
Ron: Pardon?
Laura: I didn't get your ticket.
Ron: No.
Laura: Are your friends going?
Ron: I think so, some of them.
Laura: Can I stay with you?
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Do you mind babysitting?
Ron: So I really can't go.
Laura: No, I'm joking.
Laura: I'm joking.
Laura: I'll leave her somewhere else.
Ron: Do you actually want to stay?
Laura: I could leave child of the podcast with mother and father and then come and stay and we could go on a big night out.
Ron: Yeah, we could go for some drinks.
Laura: I mean, it's a Tuesday and you've got work the next day, but.
Ron: Well, I could take that day off that I took off for you before walking.
Ron: You cancelled?
Laura: Hey, Ron, I'm going on a girls holiday to Lanzarotti.
Ron: Oh.
Laura: To an all inclusive hotel to drink and eat for three days.
Ron: Wow.
Laura: And play mini golf.
Ron: Where is Lanzarote?
Laura: The Canary Islands.
Ron: Wow.
Laura: Isn't that exciting?
Laura: I'm going to basically be like a real housewife.
Laura: Girls trip?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: I'm going in.
Ron: You're going to get really drunk and throw things?
Laura: I think I am.
Laura: I'm going to pick a fight with someone.
Ron: Who are you going with?
Laura: A load of girls and one guy for somebody's ham party.
Ron: Wow.
Ron: Do you want to do any science today?
Laura: I'm in a good mood, and I want this to be a space of good episodes.
Laura: So I don't want to shut everything down, but, no, I don't want to talk about this at all.
Laura: Not even a little bit.
Ron: So the concept of this book is essentially an optimistic.
Ron: Not even optimistic.
Ron: It's a data informed view on sort of climate change and a lot of this kind of doom idea of what's going on with the intent behind it, of trying to get people out of this idea that nothing they do matters because it's already f*****.
Laura: What if I think everything I do matters more than anything anybody else is doing and it's all f*****?
Laura: So I'm trying really hard, doing everything I can, but also still feeling despondent and like, it's all f*****.
Ron: Well, this helps with the.
Ron: It's all f***** part of it.
Ron: So what this book does is essentially, it's talking about how what you do does matter.
Ron: The things that you can do that actually make an impact versus the ones that don't and showing in data that all of the positive signs that are there without ever being like.
Ron: So we're fine.
Ron: It's like, we still need to work hard on it and probably harder than we're doing at the moment, but the signs are good at the moment.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: So chapter three is basically what we're talking about here, which is, like, climate change, global warming, effectively.
Ron: So we have target of, like, the two degrees target.
Ron: Right.
Laura: Hang on.
Laura: If the climate's changing, how come it's cold today?
Ron: Do you want me to actually explain that?
Laura: Sorry, I was being a guy on Twitter.
Laura: No, I don't.
Ron: Effectively.
Ron: If we did.
Ron: No.
Laura: Hang on.
Laura: Can you make a bell noise when it's part of the syllabus?
Laura: So I know to make notes, but.
Ron: Why don't you just make notes on all of it and just learn?
Laura: I can learn, but should I write it down?
Ron: Yeah, why not?
Laura: Okay.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So how do greenhouse gases work, Laura?
Ron: Ding dong.
Laura: They sit up in the atmosphere and heat gets through but can't get back out.
Laura: Like sunlight comes in through them and then heats up the earth.
Laura: And then the heat gets trapped in our atmosphere.
Ron: Exactly right.
Ron: Do you know the mechanism by which that happens, dong.
Laura: No.
Ron: What do you think the difference is between what's coming in and what's going out or trying to go out?
Laura: Speed.
Ron: No, because it's all light.
Ron: So the speed of lights are constant.
Ron: They actually call it C for constant.
Laura: All light moves at the same speed.
Ron: In the same material?
Ron: Yes.
Laura: Doesn't feel true, does it?
Ron: It's really true.
Ron: It's literally the speed limit of the universe.
Laura: But it's not in the same material, though, because when it's coming through space, that's a vacuum, and then when it's going through our atmosphere, it's a different material, isn't it?
Ron: It's not about speed, Laura.
Laura: Okay, fine, but I'm not being dumb bins.
Ron: No, I didn't call you a dumb with your face.
Ron: I whip dumb bins out whenever I want to, and I chose not to.
Ron: Then.
Laura: Angle.
Ron: No.
Ron: What's coming in?
Ron: Where is it coming from?
Laura: The sun.
Ron: Yep.
Ron: And what describe that energy to me.
Laura: Fierce.
Ron: Well, it's visible light, isn't it?
Laura: Visible light.
Ron: It's light coming from the sun.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: That then hits the ground running, heats up the earth.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Heats up the earth.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: What is the earth, then?
Ron: Trying to give back out?
Laura: Heat.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Which is visible infrared.
Ron: No, it's not visible light.
Ron: Is it?
Ron: Because the world doesn't glow, does it?
Ron: It's not glowing hot.
Laura: No.
Ron: So light is coming in shorter wavelengths, and then the earth heats up, and then it tries to emit that heat back out into space in the form of infrared radiation.
Ron: And it's that.
Ron: That the greenhouse gases reflect back onto us.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: These greenhouse gases.
Ron: 5.9.2 .2 dong.
Ron: Are coming from human activities and cows butts.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: The methane.
Laura: That's why I don't eat no meat.
Ron: The methane.
Laura: Don't eat no meat.
Ron: The methane does sometimes come from a cow's b***.
Laura: So does the euthane.
Laura: Asia.
Ron: Didn'T get that one.
Laura: It was a methane euthane.
Laura: And then halfway through saying euthane, I thought it sounded like the beginnings of euthanasia, and I thought, euthanasia.
Laura: I'm nervous.
Laura: I don't like this subject.
Ron: No.
Laura: Look at my pesto nails.
Ron: Oh, yeah.
Ron: So greenhouse gases that humans are emitting are warming the planet.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: I just emitted one right now.
Ron: Well, you're not helping then, are you?
Ron: And you're not taking this serious.
Ron: We have a two degree warming target that a lot of countries have agreed to try and hit.
Ron: That's by 2100.
Ron: The year 2100.
Ron: If we carried on on our current policies, Laura, where do you think we'd be against that target?
Laura: Three degrees hotter than it.
Ron: So five degrees total.
Laura: Sure.
Laura: I don't know.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: No.
Ron: So the estimates for.
Ron: If we just carry on on the track that we're on.
Ron: Exactly.
Ron: Now, the Earth would warm 2.5 to 2.9.
Ron: So that's only missing the target by one degree.
Ron: And actually, if we did nothing, had no climate policies at all, and just emitted as much as we wanted to.
Ron: The estimates for warming is actually less than you've just said there.
Ron: It's 4.1 to 4.8.
Laura: But I thought that once we got above that point, that's when things would start ramping up, because like you said, the sea won't be able to absorb as much and stuff.
Ron: No, and that's a common misconception as well.
Ron: It's not like some line in the sand that would be way too convenient that it just happened to be two degrees.
Ron: It is a target that we want to hit, and every bit of heat above that is bad.
Ron: But it's not this drop off point that's going to ruin the world if we hit that, we have to fight for every single .1 of a degree above it.
Ron: But the world isn't going to end when we hit two degrees.
Laura: At what point is the heating irreversible and unstoppable, though?
Laura: At what point does it hit just a thing where it just heats and heats and heats because it's hit a point where the heating becomes self perpetuating.
Ron: It doesn't say in here in the first hundred pages.
Ron: Yeah, but I've read the chapter on climate change, so pipe down.
Laura: What are the other chapters about?
Ron: Air pollution, food, sustainability.
Ron: It covers a lot of different things.
Laura: I feel like if I read this, I might feel better about climate change and find a load more things to worry about.
Ron: Honestly, this book is phenomenal so far and has done exactly what it's asked about.
Ron: And it's made me optimistic without making me not think, oh, f*** it.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: But I'm genuinely at the moment contemplating going vegan because of this book and the stuff that it's laying out.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So that's just where we'd be if we just carry on the exact track that we are on now.
Ron: The estimates for if we hit all of our pledges and targets is that we'd only warn by 2.1.
Ron: So basically hitting the target that we've set, then we just need to bring it do go a little bit further than that to actually hit that target.
Ron: How's this going to happen?
Ron: I hear you say.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: The reason.
Laura: Why we need a smaller population, don't we?
Laura: It's very hard to have this many people and have them all have a nice life.
Ron: Another really common misconception about it, to be honest.
Ron: There is no good way of doing that either.
Ron: You have to.
Ron: We have an aging population, so limiting birth rate artificially isn't going to help.
Ron: It also takes people a long time to die.
Ron: And then the other option that you've got is just killing loads of people, which doesn't work either.
Ron: But there are a couple of reasons why.
Ron: Actually, population isn't the thing that we need to be worrying about at the moment, one of which is because we have passed peak birth rate.
Ron: So actually, the way that all birth rates around the globe are going, we're going to pass peak human by 2100, and then the population of the earth will start falling through natural measures.
Laura: I won't quite be alive at the point where there's the most humans on earth.
Ron: You might do, you don't know what's happening with modern medicine also, it's by 2100.
Ron: But the other thing is that peak emissions per person has peaked as well.
Ron: The UK and the US, we peaked, like, emissions per person back in the early 19 hundreds.
Ron: Hang on, which lines of the world?
Ron: Here.
Ron: So China is just peaking now at its emissions per person, but their peak is like, about half of what it was in the UK.
Ron: So even a country like China, which isn't as regulated for emissions and whatnot, is still, like, each person is still contributing half of the carbon footprint that a british person did when we were at peak.
Laura: I think I heard something about this because there was an argument that there's, like, environmental reparations to be paid by countries that benefited so much from being such polluters through the industrial revolution.
Ron: Say that again.
Laura: Sorry, I think I read, like, a small thing about there being an argument for reparations to be paid by countries that were such terrible polluters during the industrial revolution and have obviously benefited nationally from that progress that got made.
Laura: But devastation was done to the planet and stuff.
Ron: Yeah, absolutely.
Ron: She talks about that in this book.
Ron: So, yeah, global peak per capita CO2 emissions peaked in 2012 and have been falling since across the globe.
Laura: Well, that was twelve years ago.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So while emissions are still going up, because, like you say, the population is still increasing, the amount per person is decreasing, and soon the population will start decreasing as well.
Laura: When you say amount per person, does that take into account industrial pollution?
Laura: Is that wrapped into per person?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So this is from fossil fuels and industry.
Ron: And then, like you say, there are different ways to sort of look at.
Ron: Sorry, there are different ways to look at CO2 emissions.
Ron: So China currently contributes 29% of annual CO2 emissions, or at least, so these are the figures for 2019.
Ron: USA contributes 14%.
Ron: But if you look at the cumulative CO2 emissions from 1750 to 2019, the USA has contributed a quarter of all of those into the world.
Ron: And then you've got the EU 27 at 17% after that, and then you've got China.
Ron: So even though they are by far the biggest emitters at the moment, they haven't done the most.
Ron: There is a fact that is true across the world, that rich countries are emitting more.
Ron: But what is interesting about that is this curve that you see nations go on, where they peak in their emissions when they're a developing country, and then as they hit, like, middle or high income, then they start to fall quite rapidly.
Ron: And we're seeing that in certain countries, like China and India at the moment.
Ron: So they are probably at peak emissions and those are going to come down.
Ron: We've seen it in a lot of developed western countries, and it can happen in other places as well.
Ron: The interesting thing about that is the speed at which you can do this, because developing countries obviously have to make a lot of decisions based on, with their money, on how they're going to help their people.
Ron: So in 2009, if you were doing this and you had a set budget and you wanted to work out what the best thing to do for your people was, your options would be solar, which would cost you about $360 per unit of electricity that you wanted to create.
Ron: You had solar thermal, which would be $170, onshore wind, 135, nuclear, 123, and then you've got coal and gas, which are 111 and 83 respectively.
Ron: But if you fast forward to 2019, it's completely flicked.
Ron: So solar photovoltaic, which I think is the better one, and onshore wind are now the cheapest forms of energy that you can possibly have for.
Laura: I'm so glad David Cameron banned any more onshore wind then in the UK.
Laura: Yeah, that's really cool.
Ron: So those are now $40, whereas coal is still 110 and gas is 56.
Ron: So for developing countries, it is now cheaper for them to invest in renewable energy, to pull their people out of poverty than it is for them to invest in coal.
Laura: Yeah, that's interesting then, that it's not like, oh, we're doing this and it is more expensive, but it's good investment, it's become cheaper.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And then the other thing that's very interesting in it is often a.
Ron: It seems like it's a choice between economic growth or being renewable and sustainable, but it is completely not the truth.
Ron: Not actually what happens.
Ron: There are, like, western countries, the ones that are past this point of the curve, they have decoupled economic growth with carbon emissions.
Ron: And even when you factor in offshoring, all of these things are falling.
Ron: Since 1990, the UK's economic GDP has grown by 52%.
Ron: If you are domestic cau, two has fallen by 48%.
Ron: And even when you factor in offshoring that carbon to other countries, it's fallen by 34%.
Ron: So even the stuff that we're getting manufactured in other countries, and then we take the carbon blame for it in inverted commerce, that's all falling, even though we're still making money, even though we're still bringing people out of poverty and whatnot.
Ron: So it's not true that you have to choose one or the other.
Ron: So the world of the future that we're moving into, developing countries don't have to deplete their natural resources and whatnot, or burn loads of coal to pull people out of poverty.
Ron: It's a really important part of this book is the philosophy that sustainability only comes with two sides of the coin.
Ron: And one is that everyone has a good life, and then the other one is that that life is good for the planet.
Ron: So sustainability, in Hannah Ritchie's definition, does not factor in living a s*** life in a cold box, because that makes less carbon.
Ron: All of this is done with the understanding that everyone will be comfortable, fed and happy while we're doing this.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And it's very interesting.
Laura: It sounds great, Ron.
Laura: I don't want to read it, but I'm enjoying you telling me about it.
Ron: I will keep telling you about it when we're doing our chemistry lessons, then.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Are there any other bits that are worth going through?
Laura: Oh, we just got another tea towel submission.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: She talks about.
Laura: Wait, about putting the tea towel together.
Ron: That's the other bit that I wanted to talk about, actually.
Ron: So she talks about an interesting bit about what people think are the things that help the most and what actually does.
Ron: So giving up an SUV, Laura, is the single best thing a person can do in terms of reducing the amount of carbon they emit every year.
Ron: If you.
Laura: I don't have one, but I suppose I have given it up in that I haven't bought one.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So that has saved you 3.6 tons.
Ron: Secretly loving SUV saved you 3.6 tons of carbon a year.
Laura: Yay.
Ron: Only 17% of people listed that in a way, like, as a good way of doing it.
Ron: The second biggest thing that you can do is go car free completely.
Ron: That would save you 2.4 tons of carbon.
Laura: Probably more for me because I drive a lot for work.
Ron: The next thing, having a plant based diet.
Ron: That's the third best thing that you could do to reduce your carbon emissions.
Ron: Only 14% of people knew that.
Laura: I definitely knew that.
Laura: Who didn't know that.
Ron: Yeah, it's super interesting.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I'm not going to go through all of them, but, yeah, some of the top ones that people mention is things like recycling or hand drying your clothes, like not using the tumble dryer, changing light bulbs, not having TVs on standby.
Laura: I reckon these are all things that were.
Laura: And then the technologies come on to make those less impactful.
Laura: Like light bulbs are all now so low energy, aren't they?
Ron: No, but that's what it's talking about is replacing old light bulbs with new ones.
Laura: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Laura: That's why people like.
Ron: No, that's what it's saying is that replacing old ones with new ones that are low energy doesn't have that much effect.
Laura: Oh, I see.
Laura: Sorry.
Ron: Misunderstood.
Ron: But yeah, most people thought recycling is.
Ron: 60% of people thought that was one of the most effective things that you could do.
Ron: And actually, recycling only saves you 0.2 tons of carbon a year.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Because it mostly ends up in landfill anyway.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So it's worth doing.
Ron: Switching to an electric car, that would save you 1.2.
Laura: They're nearly at a point where I can have one.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: What about if it's an electric SUV?
Ron: Well, that would be fine.
Laura: Probably even with the lithium mining for the batteries.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: There's a whole section in this where she talks about that and about land use of different things, because it's a common miss.
Ron: People do say that about sustainable electricity versus fossil fuels and stuff, because they're like, oh, you have to mine these for the batteries and stuff.
Ron: Where the f*** do you think the coal comes from?
Ron: We have to mine all of that out the ground as well, so it's just as horrible use of the land.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: She also said that one of the things that you can do to help is invest in green energy.
Ron: So I've bought stocks.
Laura: I've got stocks in green.
Ron: Have you?
Ron: Let's compare portfolios.
Laura: We should.
Laura: My pension has like a diversity.
Laura: I have some that are specifically in sustainable and green energy, but I also have a note on my portfolio that it is not allowed to invest in the real big polluters.
Laura: So there's some that are specifically the green portfolio.
Laura: But yeah, I'm not investing in any of the big baddies.
Ron: Nice.
Ron: So I just put ten pounds onto one of these day trading apps yesterday.
Ron: So I've got five pounds in first solar that's gone up 1.4%.
Ron: So I've made seven p on that.
Laura: Investment already in a day.
Ron: Green coat wind, though.
Ron: Really tanking my portfolio.
Ron: Greencoat UK wind down 2%.
Ron: I've lost five p on that.
Laura: Bloody wow.
Ron: And then I invested another two pound 50 in next era energy, who have just done 50 billion into their hydrogen.
Ron: And I've made two p on that as well.
Laura: I don't really know what all this means, but here is my 23 annual wealth report from my advisors.
Laura: But my breakdown, yeah, I don't really know what any of it means, but, hey, it took a dip in its first year and is claw.
Laura: Thanks, Liz.
Laura: Trust.
Laura: And is clawing its way back up now.
Laura: Should be fine by the time I'm in my 70s, which is when probably, I'll be retiring.
Laura: I'll never actually retire, but that's when I can get my punch in.
Ron: Nice.
Laura: I'm going to work till I'm dead.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Bye.
Laura: I'm going to Ken Dodd, this b**** at a gig last night, Ron, that was only down in worthing.
Laura: And I turned up and I got there and the setup wasn't great and it was just a bit weird.
Laura: And the first act, like, had to work really, really hard and he's amazing.
Laura: And then I went out and I had very low expectations and just ended up having the best time.
Laura: And because I had to do quite a long set and I haven't done that long in a while, I was just messing about with bits, knowing I had loads of time.
Laura: And I found the solution to bits that I've been struggling to find the end to.
Laura: Ended up really enjoying myself.
Ron: That's interesting.
Ron: What?
Ron: Like, just doing like a ten as a 15 and just seeing where.
Ron: How you fill the gap, sort of.
Laura: Playing about with bits and chatting to the audience and stuff.
Laura: There's been a bit that I've been really trying to get to work and I just was a bit looser with the words on it last night and f***** about and I really enjoyed it.
Ron: That's fun.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: You still enjoy your job?
Laura: I love my job.
Ron: Good.
Laura: I was driving home with a comic last night and we were talking about how difficult the industry is at the moment because I know I whinge and moan on here, but genuinely, there's a problem in the industry at the moment where I've got a fair amount of TV experience.
Laura: I've got nothing broadcast in my diary and haven't done anything on TV for, what, like a year.
Laura: So it's very hard, even for people that have arguably had their breakthrough bit to get work.
Laura: There's just not a lot of opportunity around.
Laura: And we were chatting about it, and she and I are quite similar performers.
Laura: And I was saying, it's where I'm really grateful that one.
Laura: I'm in demand enough that I can make a living off for the live circuit because we don't have family money to fall back on.
Laura: We're not those kind of performers that are like, oh, I do this because my house got bought for me.
Laura: But also I'm happy that, yeah, I haven't done any TV or anything other than circuit work for a year, a year and a half, two years, don't know, whenever the last mock the week was or whatever.
Laura: And I'm happy.
Laura: I'm not, like, going, I don't know how much longer I can do this.
Laura: If there's no more opportunities, it's like, no, I love the other stuff.
Laura: It's a really nice add on.
Laura: But if this is all it is, forever dandy.
Ron: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I'm lucky gal.
Ron: I've never been on TV once and I hate my job.
Laura: Well, yeah, I don't suppose you'll be in your job forever.
Laura: You'll make a really nice amount of money, buy a house and then have a bit of financial freedom to choose what you want to do.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Whereas I just did it the other way around and just took all the uncertainty on early doors, and now I'm relatively settled.
Ron: Yeah, I like the role that I used to do.
Laura: Maybe you could start your own company doing your role.
Laura: Maybe you'll be a consultant.
Laura: Ron.
Ron: I effectively am a consultant already.
Ron: Really.
Ron: I just don't get paid for it.
Laura: You could be a consultancy firm, man.
Ron: No, I wouldn't want to do that.
Ron: It's a bit know.
Ron: You do one thing, then you move on, and you don't necessarily sort of get to see the effects of it or be responsible for the effects of it.
Ron: I'd want something more long term than that.
Laura: He's a commitment guy.
Ron: Well, thanks for listening, everyone.
Ron: I guess we'll do a quiz on some of that somehow.
Laura: I only took notes on the dong bits, though, so that's the only bit that can go in the quiz.
Ron: Christ, that was like two things.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Infrared.
Ron: The important thing with everything that we talked through, though, there list there, is that this isn't time to get complacent.
Ron: This is just how and why we can actually pull this off, but we still have to actually do these things.
Ron: So eat less meat, skip a flight every year, and just don't be a f****** p**** about it, okay?
Laura: And sell your SUV.
Ron: Sell your.
Laura: Don't sell it, actually, because then just someone else has got it.
Laura: Bury it in the ground.
Laura: Another tea towel just came in.
Laura: Ron.
Ron: Open the doors and just park it in a play pen.
Ron: And then kids can use it as a swing.
Laura: Yeah, that was always the best thing.
Laura: Do you remember the train in the pub garden at the Victory Inn?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Just drive all your SUVs to local pubs, open the doors, put the handbrake on, and just leave them in pub gardens for children to climb in and out of and for wild animals to nest in and for plants to grow in.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Buy a kia picanto instead.
Ron: Upcycle the keys into some kind of fashionable bracelet.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Well, we have to assume that our listeners have all.
Laura: I wonder if any of our listeners had an SUV.
Ron: Not anymore.
Laura: God, I'd love one.
Ron: I'm actually car free, so I'm fine.
Laura: Yeah, I'm not car free.
Laura: Do you want to be my worst thing environmentally?
Ron: There's only one bit of this book that's really upset me.
Laura: Is it about how beards are the worst part of carbon?
Ron: No, it's about the choices around the food that you eat.
Ron: So I'm not a strict vegetarian, but I don't really eat meat much at all these days for environmental reasons.
Ron: So I've been eating quite a lot of cheese to get over that.
Ron: Cheese not good.
Laura: No.
Laura: Dairy is terrible, isn't it?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Emissions wise, I could just eat chicken, so maybe I'll do that.
Ron: Because chicken is, like, half as bad as cheese.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: And eggs are worse than I thought as well.
Ron: Man.
Laura: How can eggs be worse than chicken?
Ron: No, I said worse than I thought.
Ron: Eggs are slightly better than chicken.
Ron: Rice is apparently really bad.
Laura: Does it take a lot of water?
Laura: I expect.
Ron: I guess that's f***** me off, though.
Ron: I love rice.
Laura: Yeah, rice is great.
Ron: Rice is worse than chicken.
Laura: Whoa.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Actually, no, because this is per 100 grams of protein, so obviously there's not loads of protein in rice, so that's probably where that's coming from anyway.
Ron: It's a minefield.
Ron: The cool thing about this book, though, as well, is that she never once says, like, you have to be a vegan.
Ron: That's how we're going to save the world.
Ron: It's just like, there's an amount of.
Ron: It's almost like you have a budget, so it's like, however you want to spend it, fine by you, babes.
Ron: But here are ways you can cut down to make up for it in other ways.
Laura: That's how I've always thought of it.
Laura: I have to drive for work.
Laura: That is the one thing I can't get out of, really.
Ron: Not until they revolutionize everything about the travel in this country.
Laura: Yeah, massively.
Laura: So I've made decisions, like, when I work abroad, I fight tooth and nail to get it so that I can get a Eurostar on a train, even if it takes longer.
Laura: Because if I just turned down overseas work, another comic would just fly.
Laura: So by doing it that way, I've kind of cut a flight, cut something out of the aero industry.
Laura: I am not vegan, but I have been vegetarian for four years now.
Laura: Three years now.
Laura: And don't tend to have a very dairy based life either.
Ron: Like milk in your tea.
Laura: And that's about it, pretty much, yeah.
Laura: Have a bit of cheese, but nothing massive.
Laura: And I think that's the thing.
Laura: And then obviously, child choices, it's all been factored in of going.
Laura: There are some things like, I probably will never be completely vegan, but I've factored that in by making other choices and sort of trying to do everything in a balance.
Laura: Like, I don't fly for pleasure more than once a year, if that.
Laura: I will go several years without flying.
Laura: So I kind of feel like that sort of, it comes out in the wash.
Laura: Yeah, absolutely.
Ron: I think is the important part of this is that unfortunately, we do have to get people on side to actually pull this off.
Ron: And you won't do that by ruining their lives with any of it.
Ron: And you don't have to either, because even stuff like flights, which is.
Ron: Sorry, just, well acknowledged as being like a big emitter of carbon.
Ron: She talks for a while in here about how flying is one of the marvels of the modern world and taking it away would be awful.
Ron: You get to see the world.
Ron: What's the point in saving it if no one ever gets to see any of it?
Ron: And people can move across the world and then what?
Ron: Are they just never allowed to see their families again and stuff?
Ron: So all of it's done accounting for that kind of thing.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: All right, Ron.
Laura: Best chemistry lesson in ages.
Ron: Yeah, well, we'll see.
Ron: We'll knock it off in the quiz.
Ron: We'll f*** it up there.
Laura: Maybe.
Laura: Let's put your new statesman bit in the quiz.
Ron: Oh, the new scientist.
Laura: That's it.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Can do.
Laura: Haven't done that in a while segment.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Do you know what, Ron?
Laura: I left this episode genuinely feeling quite cheered about the world and the future and stuff.
Ron: Good.
Ron: That was the plan.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I also messaged her on Twitter to try and find out how to invite her to come on the podcast.
Laura: Maybe we could do a Patreon episode with her.
Laura: But I haven't heard back yet, so if I don't hear back this week, I will try and dig out her agent.
Ron: Oh, wow, that'd be cool.
Laura: Yeah, that'll be fun.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Proper journalism type stuff.
Laura: Oh, yeah, we're proper journalists.
Laura: We're not journalists at all.
Ron: No, we're not proper either.
Laura: We're really proper.
Laura: We know all the etiquette.
Laura: I've suddenly just got very hungry.
Laura: I went out for brunch today for Mother's Day.
Ron: Oh, yeah, because you're a mother now.
Laura: I am a mother now.
Laura: It's my first Mother's Day.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Allowed to sleep until ten and then I got a cup of tea in bed and then I got taken out for brunch and we went to this cafe that was closing down that day.
Laura: So the food was fine, but they didn't have a lot of stuff and our drinks came when we'd nearly finished our breakfast.
Laura: But other than that, it was good fun and the potatoes were very nice and I had, like, a cheesy chips with, like, a bean chili on top.
Laura: It was nice.
Laura: We sort of wandered through town a little bit.
Laura: It was nice.
Ron: That's really.
Laura: Picked up my phone from Brighton Station.
Ron: Yeah, that's nice.
Ron: I texted mum saying, happy Mother's day, Mum.
Ron: I'll give you a ring later.
Ron: I've not done that yet, but I might.
Laura: It's going to be like 09:00 by the time we finish doing this, though.
Laura: Yeah, man, you'd get away with so much.
Ron: Yeah, well, you'd get away with it too.
Ron: No one asked you to buy her an ugly, ill fitting jacket.
Laura: That was my mistake.
Laura: I shouldn't have googled ugly, ill fitting jackets and then chosen the cheapest one and sent her it.
Laura: My bad.
Laura: I got a 22 kilogram kettlebell for Mother's Day and nice.
Laura: Three skins of wool.
Ron: That's fun.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: I watched a lot of a sketch show.
Ron: I think you should leave today.
Laura: Is that Lucia Keskin's one?
Ron: No, I think you should leave with Tim Robinson.
Laura: Oh, is that the one with the zip wire bit?
Laura: That's that, yeah, it's very good.
Laura: I've seen quite a few sketches of that.
Laura: The zip wire one made me, like, hurt laughing.
Laura: Very good.
Ron: Is a really weird sketch show because he brings the exact same energy to every single sketch.
Ron: The joke is almost always exactly the same of weird person is in normal situation.
Ron: But it's funny most of the time.
Laura: It's american, isn't it?
Ron: Yeah, but he doesn't look american, right?
Laura: No, but I'm just like.
Laura: It's been really baffling me lately how with TikTok and Instagram and stuff and online videos are so popular, and a lot of it is normal people doing little sketches.
Laura: It's been really surprising me that there aren't any big entertainment format sketch shows on television at the moment.
Laura: Like, TV is terrified that everybody's not watching anymore and is watching TikTok and stuff instead.
Laura: But then they're not putting out the sort of short form content things that people are watching online.
Laura: It's just interesting to me that there's not really any sketch comedy anymore, particularly, I don't think.
Laura: But there is in other countries.
Laura: You get Auntie Donna, Australia's had good stuff.
Laura: And it's not like british sketch troops haven't been around at the fringe and stuff forever.
Laura: I'm thinking, like, late night gimp show.
Laura: There's lots of sketch troops, but there aren't really sketch troops on TV.
Ron: No.
Laura: Weird.
Laura: British entertainment is weird.
Laura: Anyway, visible light comes in and it heats up the earth and then the earth reflects that back in infrared light, which is what then can't get back out of the atmosphere.
Ron: Yeah, I did have a question that was basically that.
Ron: The only thing that you've missed in the question, it says, referencing wavelength of light.
Ron: Please explain the greenhouse effect.
Laura: Infrared has a shorter wavelength, longer wavelength, so can't get out.
Laura: Spends too long waving.
Laura: I don't know why it being long stops it moving.
Laura: Feels like it should have a longer stride.
Laura: Should be able to get out quicker.
Ron: It's to do with the covalent bonds and greenhouse gases and what they reflect.
Laura: Well, we didn't talk about that.
Ron: No, but you kind of asked.
Ron: Sorry.
Ron: Then the other thing you asked, you.
Laura: Said, referring to wavelengths.
Ron: Yeah, but you said, I don't know how it works.
Ron: And then I made the mistake of.
Laura: Thinking red feels like small one.
Laura: What does infra mean?
Laura: Infra feels like it means small.
Ron: What does infra mean?
Ron: Below.
Laura: Yeah, below average.
Laura: Small, long, ultra long.
Laura: You can't be ultra something and be.
Ron: Small, but it's higher energy if it's small.
Laura: Like me.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: All right.
Ron: And then the other question I had, because we really didn't do much sort of content from the syllabus.
Ron: What are the three greenhouse gases we learnt about?
Laura: Carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour.
Ron: That is the quiz.
Laura: Oh, Ron, you okay?
Ron: Yeah, I'm fine.
Laura: I look like s*** energy suddenly.
Ron: No, that's just the quiz.
Laura: Hey, Ron, like nine days until you'reunited with your water bottle.
Ron: Yeah, no, it's not this episode.
Ron: Because this episode is a different.
Laura: Yeah, no, it was the quiz of this one where you found out about the water bottle situation.
Ron: No, because I've just edited that.
Laura: Oh, no, that's true.
Laura: That was the one that went out last week.
Laura: Sorry, that's one I just listened to.
Laura: Yeah, it was last week's episode.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: F*** no, two weeks ago.
Laura: Oh my God, the timeline.
Laura: Okay, well, I'm going to go and finish my tea and get a small snack and everyone else is just going to carry on doing what they're doing and listen to a sting.
Ron: Maybe I'll have a small snack.
Laura: Have a small snack.
Laura: What are you going to have?
Ron: Maybe some homemade pickles.
Ron: Homemade.
Laura: Nana.
Laura: Does everybody just feel like three stone lighter for having had all of that lovely Hannah Ritchie relief poured all over them?
Ron: I can't recommend that book enough.
Ron: I've now finished that book.
Laura: Was there a twist at the end?
Laura: Like ha lied about the whole thing?
Ron: No, what I will say for the book is that, and this is just my personal thing, the bits that I care least about were at the end.
Ron: So it was at the end.
Ron: I was just like, okay, got to finish, got to finish.
Laura: What was those bits?
Ron: This is going to make me sound bad overfishing.
Ron: Not because I don't think it's important, but I don't really eat fish much at all.
Ron: So even before I was becoming a bit more veggie and stuff, I'd eat fish less than once a know my impact on the oceans is very low.
Laura: Ron doesn't care about fish.
Laura: Hey, no need to cancel all your Patreons everyone, because Ron did send me the Ron's facts videos and those have been going up on our social feed.
Laura: We've had a slight difficult thing where because we opened the discord for the patrons and patrons now sort of discuss so our biggest listenership all discuss it privately.
Laura: We have a good deal of trouble now getting social media to get the word out about our podcast because it's almost too successful.
Laura: What a nice community we've made.
Laura: So we have been putting out the Ron's facts to just try and spread the word and find new listeners.
Laura: So if you see them, if you see any of our social media stuff, please give it a share.
Laura: It just helps us keep the podcast going.
Laura: Good guns, Ron.
Laura: You've just put in the notes.
Laura: Stocks update.
Laura: How are your stocks doing?
Ron: Yes, so I did.
Laura: We got a new scientist feature today.
Ron: Nah, I've done loads.
Ron: I've done loads.
Ron: Oh, it's going to be a really weird episode later, man.
Laura: I'm excited.
Ron: So, stocks update.
Ron: I invested another ten pounds, as I said I would, and after a lot of ups and downsing, I am breaking even.
Laura: What, you've earned that ten pounds back already?
Ron: No, I'm breaking even.
Ron: It's just it's made and lost.
Ron: No money.
Laura: Right.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: So I've now invested in five different stocks.
Laura: Mushrooms, vegetable, fish, beef and chicken.
Ron: Four of them, all losing me money.
Ron: One of them making so much it has canceled out the other four losses.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: Which one is that one then?
Laura: Or is that insider trading?
Laura: Are we not allowed to say?
Ron: No, we're not insiders.
Ron: So I can say that's just outsider trading and that's fine.
Ron: Next era energy.
Ron: I've gained 5% on it.
Ron: And that is 40 pence.
Laura: Hello.
Ron: That has gotten rid of all my other losses.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: I've invested in the other two stocks.
Ron: I've invested in beyond meat, and that's gone down.
Ron: That's gone down by 1.6%.
Ron: That's four pence loss.
Laura: I didn't have any beyond meat this week.
Ron: And elf nutrition, which is a vegan baby formula company, that's gone down 4.4% and that's lost me eleven pence.
Laura: It's not enough f****** vegan babies in this day and age.
Ron: No, it's bad.
Ron: Really, man?
Ron: Which one was the really s*** one?
Ron: There's one that I bought right at the top of.
Ron: Right at the top of a peak.
Ron: And it's just plummeted ever since.
Ron: I'm not great at this.
Laura: Why did you buy it at the top of a peak, mate?
Ron: Because I thought meteoric rise, but no, it was a peak.
Laura: You should do what I do and just put all your money into crypto.
Ron: Which crypto?
Laura: Ethereum?
Ron: Crypto.
Ron: Once, yeah.
Laura: I think I have somewhere.
Laura: I don't know.
Laura: It's on the Internet somewhere, isn't it?
Ron: How's Ethereum doing?
Ron: Shall we see?
Laura: I have no idea, mate.
Laura: Can't remember where I've got it.
Laura: It's in some sort of crypto wallet somewhere.
Ron: Ethereum is not doing too bad.
Laura: Wicked.
Ron: There you go.
Laura: Maybe I will retire one day.
Laura: Anything else you want to do, Ron?
Ron: So should we do the register?
Laura: Yeah, if you like.
Laura: Oh, it's a short one today.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: First of all, thank you to Steph.
Laura: Hello, Steph.
Laura: Thank you, Steph.
Laura: Steph is a big tree.
Laura: In a forest, and that forest is sucking up lots of horrid carbon and emitting some nice oxygen.
Laura: Bloop, bloop, bloop for everyone.
Laura: Thank you, Steph.
Laura: Thanks very much.
Laura: You're a cool one.
Laura: Trees forever and ever?
Laura: Trees forever and ever.
Laura: Trees forever.
Laura: Trees forever.
Laura: Trees forever and ever.
Ron: I've been in a weird headspace while I've been preparing for this, and thank you to.
Ron: I'm peeking a bit there.
Ron: Thank you.
Laura: Are you a bit stoned, Ron?
Ron: Thank you.
Ron: No, actually, I'm really tired.
Ron: Mark Buchanan, who's in charge of all the lighting for Lora's homemade p***.
Laura: It's going to be another episode that upsets Tom, isn't it?
Laura: Thanks for listening.
Laura: Thanks for being patrons.
Laura: Thanks for spreading the word.
Laura: Thanks for being the greatest human beings on planet Earth.
Laura: And we'll see you next week.
Laura: Love you.
Ron: Thanks.
Ron: Love you.
Laura: Love you.
Ron: Love you.
Laura: Love you, Ron.
Ron: Love you, listeners.
Laura: Love you, Ron.
Ron: Love you, listeners.
Laura: Cluster Smith, well done, you absolute moron.
