Thanks to your article “Warm-up Wake-up Call” [Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 30]. We usually consider local weather change as an issue impacting the U.S. coasts. But this text highlights that there are downsides that go effectively past nice spring-like climate loved throughout Christmas. As our Illinois local weather continues to heat, we’ll see much more excessive rain occasions within the spring and far hotter and drier summers. The financial impacts will embody crop yield loss, costly infrastructure funding to deal with elevated storm water run-off, and Lake Michigan water degradation. The well being impacts will outcome from poorer air high quality from elevated smog and elevated incidents in tick-borne illness. SEND LETTERS TO: letters@suntimes.com. Please