Climate change is more than just sea level rise and severe storms. It will touch nearly every aspect of our lives, from our health, to our hobbies, to our wallets.
Cape Cod is one of the more vulnerable areas in the U.S. when it comes to climate change. And the impacts of climate change are much greater than we understand.
Below are some of the ways we will be impacted by climate change:
increase in tick-borne diseases
more weeds
increase in cost of doing business
more frequent and intense storms
increase in algae blooms
more pollen and allergies
increase in respiratory illnesses
increase in frequency of flooding
erosion
incoming southern pine beetle invasion
storm surge
fish species moving north