More Flooding, Higher Temperatures, Multiple Extinctions On The Warming Menu For Indiana

[hatrack]

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Indiana residents should be most concerned with preserving the state’s forest and aquatic ecosystems, (ed: IPFW Professor Robert) Gillespie said. The state faces a possible 9- to 10-degree temperature increase during the summer by 2100, which may lead to more frequent and larger storms, he said.

Those storms will produce more flooding, which is especially worrisome for Fort Wayne, with three rivers crossing the city, Gillespie said. The state also faces the flight of songbirds, the Indiana bat and freshwater mussels, which are sensitive to environmental change, he said. “The consequences are huge,” Gillespie said. “We need to protect this biodiversity.”

Solomon Isiorho, IPFW chairman and professor of geosciences, gave information about how humans have contributed to the problem and what the evidence of global warming is. Humans have continued to reproduce, thus creating an overpopulated globe; eliminated forests in South America; and created megacities, which are, in a sense, heat islands, Isiorho said.

The evidence: The temperature in the tropics has increased significantly; snow cover has decreased by 10 percent; ocean temperatures has risen; and precipitation has increased, he said.

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http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/17121654.htm

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Maybe they could spend some of that Homeland Security money on flood control.

[tom_paine]

2. Maybe the Nazis could have spent some of that concentration camp money on environmental

protections.

:sarcasm:

yeh, right! Same chance of either one.

[Shoelace]

3. my son bought a home in Ft. Wayne last year

he moved from Florida to get away from the increased warming, potential rise in ocean levels, etc. Plus, property is so inexpensive (4 bdrm house for 40K!).

I'm well aware of the flooding potential there as I've been watching the weather warnings, etc., in that area since his move.

What really concerns me is the increased threat of tornadic activity from climate change. 225 tornadoes in March this year alone - broke all the records.