On Cape Cod, Climate Change Is Already Terrifyingly Real

SANDWICH, MA - JULY 11: A fiddler crab is pictured at Scorton Creek in East Sandwich, MA at low tide on July 11, 2019. Scorton Creek is off Route 6A, and is a tidal river in salt-water marshlands that connects East Sandwich Beach. Erosion is seen at Scorton Creek from storms and high tides, as marsh walls have collapsed, and trees have fallen into the water from it's banks. To the millions of us who visit Cape Cod once or twice a summer, the effects of climate change can seem subtle, if we see them at all: A breach in the dunes. A crack in the pavement. But once you know how to see what is shifting, changing and washing away, it is impossible to ignore. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)