#446: How Climate Change Impacts Nutrient Status
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800’s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Climate change has the potential to negatively impact the nutrient value of plants, soil organisms, food stuffs, via a variety of ways. Climate change puts food supplies at risk. Floods, droughts, more intense hurricanes, heatwaves and wildfires can drive down crop yields, destroy livestock, and interfere with the transport of food. And rising carbon dioxide levels from human activity can make staple crops like rice and wheat less nutritious.
In this podcast the Sigma team take a look at the evidence on how climate change will impact nutrient status, if left unchecked. There will be also a look at what solutions have been put forward to tackle this issue. This episode will focus more on how climate change impacts nutritional & nutrient status, as opposed to converse (but equally important) issue of how food systems impact climate change.
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| 1:21.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 446 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I'm Alan Flanagan. |
| 1:22.7 | I will be hosting today joined by Dr. Neve Aspel in the absence of Mr. Danny Lennon. |
| 1:29.3 | Neve, how are you today? |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, I'm good. Danny's missed but I think we'll do okay, really, I think. |
| 1:36.3 | I think the topic of today's podcast, |
| 1:39.3 | strategic move. |
| 1:40.3 | We're here collectively. |
| 1:42.3 | It would be hard for anyone to find the will to live |
| 1:46.7 | potentially afterwards. On that rather dark introduction listeners, today we are discussing |
| 1:53.4 | how climate change will impact nutrient status. So not necessarily focusing on the impact of, you know, food production |
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