Lizzie Gibney

Well, we have something very exciting in clock news for all those metrology fans and some fantastic effects of football that you might not have thought about.

It's become so much more mainstream.

I remember maybe a decade ago, it was something quite risky for a researcher even to propose as a study to look at geoengineering because it was seen as just so radical.

I mean, the side effects is just so hard to predict when you're literally altering the atmosphere.

But I really think that's changed.

We're now seeing all of these ideas being taken really seriously, which probably tells us something about the dire situation that...

We are in.

There was a survey done by a new scientist last year that found that two thirds of climate scientists thought humans would, by the end of the century, do some form of large scale geoengineering, even if they don't think it's a good idea.

I think so.

It's got to be the final nuclear option.

There are many, many more levers that we have to pull, and I think it's just, as Mark said, it's quite disappointing that those aren't necessarily being pulled yet.

So this is a paper on the Salah effect.

So it's about what football can teach us about reducing prejudice.

It's published in the American Political Science Review.

And the researchers here looked at what happened after Mohamed Salah, who's an Egyptian footballer, he joined Liverpool in 2017.

So what happened after that?

He's Muslim.

He's very upfront about his religion.

His religion was really a part even of the chants that the supporters would sing.

So there actually are some examples in the paper.