Kamala Harris has long warned Americans that coastal living means residing on the edge of climate catastrophe, yet her latest real estate purchase suggests she is quite comfortable staking millions of dollars on the stability of the Pacific shoreline.
According to The Blaze, the former vice president, who built much of her national profile on dire climate rhetoric, has reportedly acquired an $8.15 million oceanside mansion in Malibu, California. This comes after years of insisting that unchecked emissions and rising seas would devastate coastal communities, a message she amplified during her failed 2020 presidential bid and throughout her tenure in the Biden-Harris administration.
During that first unsuccessful presidential campaign, where she proposed the United States spend a staggering $10 trillion on combating what she called an existential threat, Harris wrote, "Our oceans are warming. Sea levels are rising. Pollution is threatening our air and water. Droughts are hurting our crops. Fires are burning our forests. Extreme weather is destroying our communities. We are poisoning the planet." She also championed legislation to hand out $50 million annually in grants for "carrying out climate-resilient living shoreline projects" and, in her words, "mitigat[ing] against sea level rise."
Her rhetoric only intensified once in national office. When announcing in 2023 that the Biden-Harris administration was recommending $562 million in funding to make communities and the economy more resilient to the alleged climate change, Harris told a crowd at the University of Miami, "To live in a coastal community is to live on the front lines of the climate crisis."
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon and promoted by the administration, a government-backed study that same year claimed that "24%-75% of California's beaches may become completely eroded" because of sea-level rise. Despite this apocalyptic framing, Harris has now planted her flagand her fortuneon one of the most coveted stretches of coastline in the country, apparently untroubled by the doomsday scenarios she once invoked.
The Malibu estate, located in the affluent Point Dume neighborhood, reportedly sold on December 2. A Zillow listing for the 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home indicates that the property has a pool, a hot tub, a sauna, a cold plunge, a professional gym, a landscaped water feature, a "private putting and chipping green with a bunker," a guest house, and "breathtaking ocean, island, and city views."
Point Dume itself is known for its private, gated beaches and its roster of Hollywood and Silicon Valley elites, according to the New York Post. For a politician who has repeatedly cast coastal communities as ground zero for climate disaster, it is a conspicuously luxurious bet on the enduring value of oceanfront property.
Harris, who is reportedly contemplating a third White House bid, did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment. Her silence comes as new data undercuts the alarmist projections that have fueled massive federal spending and sweeping regulatory schemes.
Fortunately for Harris, and contrary to her past claims about rapidly rising seas, a study published last year in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering indicated that the average sea level rise in 2020 was roughly 0.059 inches a year, which works out to about 6 inches per century. One of the paper's co-authors told the Post in September, "This is significantly lower than the 3 to 4 mm/year often reported by climate scientists in scientific literature and the media."
Such a modest rate of increase helps explain why Al Gore's 2006 prediction of a 20-foot rise in the global sea level "in the near future" has yet to materialize. It also casts Harris' oceanside splurge in a revealing light: if the climate crisis were truly as imminent and catastrophic as she has long claimed, an $8 million mansion perched above the Pacific would be an odd place to park her money.
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