NWI was just like Arizona back before the climate changed

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The Northwest Indiana Times runs a story today about a Valparaiso University professor’s research into the history of Northwest Indiana’s sand dunes.

One interesting item of the research is a finding that back in the good old days before the combustion engine, Northwest Indiana’s climate was a lot warmer than it is these days — a lot like Arizona’s climate, according to the professor.

This supports the new theory among some scientists that man migrated to North American from Europe rather than Asia over the Bering Strait. We used to think, how could Europeans come over the ocean when it was all ice here, but now we know, it wasn’t ice then,” (VU Professor Ronald) Janke said.

In fact, North America, and this region specifically, was rather balmy.

“The climate then would be like Arizona is today. So not only was there no glacier here then, but it was warm,” he said.

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