Conversations about Climate Change

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Naked Scientists, Medicine, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Technology, Science, Health & Fitness, Science Radio

4.6 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, a crash course in climate change: we meet one strange fish already feeling the pinch, ask if humans are wired to ignore the threat, and look at one way we could all reduce our carbon footprint. Plus, why alcohol consumption can come back to bite you, the seven new planets discovered by NASA and the bees that have been trained to score goals. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.1	This week, conversations about climate change.
0:19.5	Our humans hardwired to ignore the threat and what might happen to us if we do.
0:24.0	Plus in the news how alcohol consumption can come back to bite you,
0:28.0	the seven new planets discovered by NASA and goal scoring bees. I'm Georgia Mills, I'm Katani and this is the
0:36.3	Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.co. UK.
0:43.0	Just over a year ago,
0:49.0	just over a year ago, the UK government reduced the guideline amount of alcohol that's
0:53.8	considered safe from 21 units per week to 14 but the recently published
0:59.3	health survey for England shows that the average weekly intake for men is about 15 units and for women
1:05.8	it's about 9. In other words some people are drinking a lot more heavily than perhaps they ought
1:10.9	to but is there evidence that this actually does any damage?
1:14.8	And can a young person get away with it as long as they cut down later in life? A lot of the data we have at the moment
1:20.8	is from a single snapshot of people's lives and so it may not be
1:24.3	giving the whole story. Dara O'Neill from UCL has looked at the drinking habits of a number of people
1:30.0	over several decades and how this has ultimately affected their blood vessels.
1:34.6	Chris Smith has the story.
1:36.5	Arterial stiffness is an indicator of cardiovascular disease risk and research has traditionally relied on cross-sectional research which is just
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