Ever since the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, Democrats, climate advocates and many others have been worried that the nation could slip backwards in areas like global warming and climate change where Americans made notable progress over the last many years.

The concern is real as Trump has long been a skeptic of climate change. He has repeated called global warming a ‘hoax’. He also vowed that he would cancel Paris Agreement, which aims to tackle global warming by cutting manmade carbon emissions.

If he appoints Myron Ebell, a policy specialist who has challenged various media surveys on global warming, as the head the EPA, the worries will just intensify further.

Meanwhile, the New York Times (NYT) published a controversial report under the headline “Rising Seas Turn Coastal Houses into a Gamble,” suggesting that rising sea levels caused by global warming have pushed coastal homeowners as well as developers into doldrums as they are increasingly worried about the value of their properties.

However, many experts are hopeful that Trump will not be able to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement because the international pact has already been implemented. The pact, negotiated by the U.S. and 194 other countries, aims to hold the average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit from preindustrial levels.