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Purdue report: Climate change will impact Indiana tourism

Scorching heat waves combined with heavier rainfall events are among the effects of climate change in store for Indiana, according to the new National Climate Assessment. Photo credit: Scott Liddell/morguefile.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A new report says Indiana’s tourism and recreation industry will have to adjust as climate change makes the state warmer and wetter in the coming decades.

Monday’s report by Purdue University’s Climate Change Resource Center is the center’s latest analysis of how climate change will impact Indiana.

The new report says the timing of outdoor recreational activities will shift by mid-century because Indiana’s winter season is expected to shorten by 20 to 25 days.

The analysis says Indiana’s ice fishing and skiing industries will be hurt as temperatures rise and less snow falls.

Meanwhile, Indiana’s spring and fall temperatures are forecast to warm 4-to-6-degrees Fahrenheit.

The Evansville Courier & Press reports there will be wide-ranging impacts to Indiana’s tourism and recreation sector as the state warms and sees precipitation changes.

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Grumpy November 13, 2018 at 9:43 pm

Saw a report today that EVERY planar in our solar system is warming. Last I knew nobody on the rest of the planets is using fossil fuel. The only thin in common is the source of system heat; The Sun.

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