Will Climate Change Cost the Earth?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What does climate change have in store for the future? What will it mean for the man, or woman, in the street? How will it hit the global economy, and what can businesses do to fight back? This week, we hear the perspectives of a climate specialist, an economist, a psychologist and a technologist as we ask, "what are the costs of climate change?" Plus, in the news, the emerging ebola crisis, tastier beers coming on tap thanks to fruit flies, and a breakthrough in prosthetic arm technology... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	The Hello, welcome to the naked scientist this week with me Chris Smith and also a cat
0:18.8	Arnie. This week what does the future hold for climate change?
0:23.3	What will it cost the economy?
0:25.0	How can businesses fight back and will the public buy into their arguments?
0:29.4	Plus in the news, the emerging Ebola crisis, while we might have flies to thank for the lovely
0:34.9	taste of beer and a breakthrough in prosthetic arm technology.
0:38.8	What we can do now because we have electrodes in the muscles and around the nerves is record signals
0:45.4	that were normally go to the missing hand and use those to tell the prosthesis
0:50.5	what to do and in a similar way we can send electrical impulses and
0:55.1	the person can perceive different sensations. The Naked Scientists Podcast is
1:00.1	powered by UKfast.co.
1:02.8	So far at least 8,000 people have been infected with Ebola and about half of those have died.
1:16.0	It's spreading at an exponential rate and it's on the move.
1:20.0	Ebola cases have now been confirmed in Europe and America, a nurse at a Madrid hospital treating to infected missionaries has self-contracted the disease.
1:28.0	While in Dallas, a man who caught the virus in his native Liberia has since died, and apparently health care worker who treated him has also appeared to develop the infection.
1:37.0	So how much of a threat is Ebola and what can we do to stop it?
1:41.0	We ask you for your questions and handily Chris is a consultant
1:44.2	virologist so he's going to answer it for you. So Chris, give us a quick top
1:49.5	down. What is Ebola? Where did it come from and how is it spreading?
1:54.3	Yeah, should we just be panicking and putting on masks everywhere?
1:57.7	Ebola is a virus, Kat. It has been around since the late 1970s.
2:02.4	1976 was when the first human case was recorded,
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