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It’s been an active extreme weather event season in the Midwest – from heat to flooding to tornadoes. And that’s leaving a trail of damage but also a potentially long-lasting health impact.

Indiana University's Gabriel Filippelli said communities in low-lying areas may struggle with flooding and remain more vulnerable to climate change.

Indiana University students and faculty joined the international climate discussion at the recent United Nation’s 28th Conference of Parties.

The researchers say their findings underline that policies to reduce carbon emissions will have other unintended benefits.

Experts attribute the October heat to long-term climate change driven by fossil fuel emissions, but these effects have been exaggerated by the natural climate phenomenon, El Niño.

The highest percentage of properties in the flood insurance bubble were in north central Indiana — in counties like Miami, White and Cass.

Carbon neutrality is a “balance between the amount of carbon emissions produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere."

Several northern cities could see maximum wind speeds of up to 40 to 70 miles per hour as a result of these storms. The rest of the state could see wind speeds increase by four to 11 mph.

Here is what environmental experts are saying about the future effects of climate change.

According to the independent research and reporting collaboration Climate Central, the average winter temperature has gone up for every Indiana city it studied since 1970.