Revise the following essay so that it's more appropriate for the task, purpose, and audience described in the prompt. Prompt:

Write an argumentative essay aimed at your state legislator that explains a few problems related to climate change and argues for a reasonable change that ordinary people can make to help solve these problems.

Essay:

One way that we can help keep climate change from getting worse is by using public transportation rather than individual cars whenever possible.

These changes in heat affect the entire globe's climate but not always in the same way. One outcome of climate change is extreme weather — not just extreme heat or drought, but also tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and other disasters that used to happen just once in a blue moon. Climate change is the result of carbon emissions in the atmosphere trapping heat that would normally leave through the ozone.

Cars are responsible for 28 percent of carbon emissions in the United States. If each person rode the bus just one day a week, carbon emissions could be reduced by almost 40 percent.