INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A new report by a science advocacy group warns that global warming could bring scorching summers, more flooding and lower crop yields to Indiana in the coming decades.

The nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists says its report released Wednesday is the first peer-reviewed analysis of what unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could mean for Indiana.

The group’s Midwest office director, Ron Burke, says Indiana could face scorching summers with up to a month of 100-degree days each summer by the end of the century. He says that heat, along with spring flooding and summer droughts, would damage Indiana’s crop production.

The report comes two days before the U.S. House is scheduled to vote on a climate change bill that would set limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

http://www.ucsusa.org

Posted 6/25/2009