Climate change continues unabated

The article “Boiling point? Scientists say warming climate will change Ohio” (CbusNEXT article, Friday) could not have been more timely. If more evidence of urgency is needed, consider the catastrophic flooding in Texas, which is consistent with climate researchers’ predictions of storms becoming more intense in the warming climate.

We need national and global action. Many forwardthinking leaders, businesses and economists support putting a price on carbon, which would push the clean-energy market forward rapidly. The best energy solution would emerge through market competition.

The national group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (with 11 chapters in Ohio, including Columbus and Delaware) advocates vigorously in Congress for a steadily rising fee on carbon, imposed at the mine, wellhead or port of entry, with all proceeds to be distributed to households to offset higher costs during the transition to clean energy.

Right now, with rising concern in Congress, 52 House members — half Republicans, half Democrats — have joined the House Climate Solutions Caucus. Ohio Reps. David Joyce, R-Russell Township, and Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, have recently joined.

The most powerful step that citizens can take to reduce the terrible threat of climate change is to urge their congressional representative to join the Climate Solutions Caucus and to put a price on carbon.

Marianne Gabel Delaware