Cape Talk, Monday night

is I'm going to change the world by making everybody laugh about climate change and getting the message out. And I thought to myself, well, what do I know that other people don't know about? What can I talk about? What can I bring to the table? I'm here to put the mate in climate change and the warm goal in global warming and the argumental in environmental.

I have a PhD in climate change policy, which means I'm the sort of doctor that if you're ever on a flight and you have a heart attack, I will rush to your side, but only to berate you for flying. Why are you on the plane? Meet Matt Winning, a funny man from the Scottish town of Paisley, who describes his job, or one of them at least, as a bit of an oxymoron. See, I'm an environmental economist. Environmental.

Hey, economist. Thanks. It's a bit like a human rights lawyer. Still a lawyer. Or a cocktail sausage. As you might be starting to gather, Matt is also a comedian. He crunches scientific data by day and hits the UK comedy circuit by night. In both cases, hoping to share an understanding of just how human behavior is.

Is changing the climate on the planet we share. When I was born, climate change was just nascent in the public's awareness. During the short time that I have grown from a baby to an adult through school, university, fallen in love and had that baby of my own, and experienced everything I have ever experienced in my life, including all of the fast and the furious bankrupts, during that time, over 55% of all CO2 emissions that have ever occurred had occurred. Through humour and banter with his audiences, he draws giggly lines.

Between the choices many of us make in everyday life and the searing heat waves, storms, droughts, and wildfires that have become a new kind of normal. And he finds funny ways of explaining how different actions have different levels of impact. Here they are in descending order. Here we go. Edit number four! Okay, number four! Don't have a cow, man! It's eating meat! And that's about 10% of the average UK person's emissions. Edit number 3: Is it a bird?

Is it a plane? Yes, it's a plane. And it's the most emissions-intensive thing we could possibly do. You'd not have to not eat meat for two years in order to take a return flight to New York and back. And at number three, beep, beep. It's driving. You turn ahead. Basically, you would have to, yeah, basically 30% of the UK emissions assist by farly one of the highest actions you could do. Now, does anyone want to guess what number one is? Hold that thought.