This year’s weather has been wreaking havoc (“The Year of the Great Flood,” editorial, July 19). Your editorial is correct to call for more Federal aid to make repairs and remediation. But we should also be calling for more investments in slowing the cause of the flooding disasters: global warming. Scientists can now say with certainty that this year’s extraordinary suite of worldwide weather catastrophes – floods, heat waves, wildfires – would not have happened without the effects of climate change. How to fight it? Stop burning fossil fuels, whose emissions trap heat in the atmosphere and with it, moisture. The resulting imbalance gives us the terrifying weather that we are now experiencing. The Earth needs all the clean energy humans can build, and fast. Here in New York, that means more wind farms on land and offshore, more solar farms, more battery storage and more modern transmission to integrate these assets into the grid. Offshore wind projects, including Beacon Wind off the Long Island coast, are in the approvals process. These and future projects must move ahead ASAP so that they can replace fossil-fuel power plants. Governor Kathy Hochul has championed clean energy and set goals to enable New York to meet its nation-leading commitments under the 2019 Climate Act, and Public Service Commissioner Roy Christian has carried out these policies with diligence. Governor Hochul must now open up another round of contracting to ensure that New York meets its mandate of enough offshore wind for 4.5 million homes by 2035. These initiatives are urgently necessary, as 2023 is unlikely to be the last “year of the great flood.”