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Alberta scientists working to shift climate change focus to health impacts

Group hopes reframing of issue will help public understand more personal impacts of climate change
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A cyclist makes their way along a roadway in a lane marked for bicycles, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022 in Ottawa. Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper.

“Climate change impacts everything we care about,” she said. “It’s not just an environmental issue.”

That’s why Harper, along with 30 or so colleagues from disciplines as wide-ranging as economics and epidemiology, have banded together into what she calls Canada’s first university hub to shift the view of climate change from an environmental problem to a threat to human health.

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