Sea level rise is overtaking Trump’s favorite vacation spot

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July 14, 2017 4:19 PM

The threat of climate change will likely only get worse for Mar-a-Lago. A new NOAA report says South Florida oceans could rise up to 12 feet by 2100.

An illustration of what Trump’s Mar-a-Lago would look like with a 10-foot sea level rise.

President Trump likes to vacation at Mar-a-Lago, an estate and beach resort in South Florida that he purchased in 1985. Since being elected, he has frequently stayed in the private quarters of the property's 126-room mansion, dubbed his "winter White House."

But Mar-a-Lago is under threat from climate change. That's according to a 2017 report by the

In 2016, the Guardian reported that water is already overflowing into the Mar-a-Lago property, as well as the bridges and roads needed to access it. And as Vox recently noted, another 2016 paper found that, since 2006, the average rate of sea-level rise had tripled from 3 millimeters annually to 9 millimeters in South Florida.

If sea levels rise just two feet, the estate's western lawns would completely flood, according to the Associated Press. South Florida roads also already flood periodically during storms or high tides, and in recent years, cities like Miami and Titusville have installed expensive pumping systems to drain the water.

Later this year, Miami Beach will begin a $100 million flood prevention project, which includes

In June, the Trump administration announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change by 2019. Established in 2015, the accord sets greenhouse-gas emission goals that signatory countries vow to meet.

House officials refused to answer if Trump believed in the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change.

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