Extreme heat shows climate change is here. We can be part of the solution | Letter

As we face an extreme level 4 heat advisory over the next several days, it is time to remember that this heat is in part due to climate change from burning fossil fuels. 

Climate scientists have been warning us about this for decades. The longer we continue to burn fossil fuels, the longer our world will continue to warm, and the weather patterns we have relied on for thousands of years will change for the worse.   

We can adapt at great expense, e.g. move our houses and businesses away from our coasts and change our agricultural practices, OR we can stop burning fossil fuels like coal, gasoline and natural gas.

If you want to be part of the solution:

• Join Citizens’ Climate Lobby to help convince our legislators to move us away from the use of fossil fuels.
• Switch your natural gas stove, furnace, clothes dryer and hot water heater to electric models whenever they need to be replaced.
• Use the “Apples-to-Apples“ PUCO website to switch your electricity supplier to one that uses 100% renewable energy sources.
• Make your next car a hybrid or an all-electric model.  

Marcie Groesbeck, North Canton