A Future of Submerged Salt Marshes - Editorial | Falmouth Enterprise

In the rush of more immediate concerns, we didn’t give proper attention to a story in last week’s Enterprise that begins, “More than 90 percent of the world’s salt marshes will be underwater by 2100, according to a 50-year study of Great Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.”

This is strong evidence that sea level rise caused by human-induced climate change will drastically reshape coastal areas—including Cape Cod—within this century.

The year 2100 might seem a long way away, but the research shows the effects are already present. And salt marshes are hardly the only ecosystems at real risk of being submerged. Read rest of the editorial here.

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