Climate change, driven by soaring emissions of heat-trapping gases, is usually seen as a long-term environmental problem.

Increases in the global air temperature are measured in a degree or two over many decades. It’s easy to think of it as a problem for our grandchildren or great-grandchildren, not something we need to worry about right now.

But that is wrong. We are already seeing the effect of a warming planet, and we are already paying the price.

The latest example involves Maine’s shrimp fishery – the fishing season has been canceled for the second straight year. Fishermen landed 12 million pounds of northern shrimp in 2010, a total that dropped to 563,313 in 2013 before that year’s shutdown.

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