Thomas Catenacci of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an interesting real estate transaction involving the Democrats’ last presidential nominee.
Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff purchased an $8 million mansion in an exclusive oceanside Malibu neighborhood last month. The move came after Harris spent years warning that such communities could be threatened by the “climate crisis.”
A real estate listing for the mansion, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, says the luxury pad is “perched in a prime coastal location” with “breathtaking ocean views.” The property sits right near a coastline that—according to climate scenarios endorsed by Harris—is at risk of facing extreme flooding. A climate model issued by the Biden-Harris administration determined that Point Dume State Beach, the beach a short walk from Harris’s new property, would be severely damaged by sea level rise even under the model’s most modest projections. The Trump administration discontinued that model in June 2025.
The purchase, which was first reported by the New York Post, calls into question Harris’s earnestness when discussing the threats posed by what she calls the “climate crisis.”
“Our oceans are warming. Sea levels are rising,” Harris wrote during her short-lived presidential campaign in 2019. “Extreme weather is destroying our communities. We are poisoning the planet.”
As a senator, Harris cosponsored the Living Shorelines Act, which called for earmarking $50 million in federal funding a year for combating sea level rise, which threatens “thousands of coastal communities and economies.”
“Our country is facing a climate crisis,” Harris remarked at the time. “We must also take steps to mitigate against sea level rise and prepare for the extreme weather that has become increasingly common.”
Weeks after introducing that bill, Harris shared a Washington Post article on social media, noting that the story and its accompanying analysis show the nation is facing rising sea levels, extreme weather, and higher temperatures. The article stated that Ventura County, Calif.—home to Harris’s recently acquired mansion—has warmed 2.6 degrees Celsius since 1895, more than any other county evaluated using federal data.
