What's important is that they've finally solved the daily deals inundation problem.
Although MCS is easy to use, it is restricted by extensive computational needs, particularly for large-scale flood inundation modelling problems.
Soil erosion by water and wind, acidification and inundation are growing problems caused by inadequate management practices and exacerbated by climate change.
Beyond the immediate risk associated with lahar inundation, a significant problem for many communities will be managing displaced populations and dealing with long recovery time frames (years to decades) of damaged communities.
"There is also evidence," the report says, "that extraction of large volumes of oil and gas has exacerbated the problems of inundation and saltwater intrusion"—that is, withdrawing oil and gas along geologic faults seems to exacerbate subsidence in coastal Louisiana.
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel inundation, the swamping of the Lower East Side, the huge problems at New York hospitals, the stranding of the holdouts in Atlantic City, all became apparent on Twitter in vivid detail.
"Land subsidence and sea level rise are both happening, and they are both contributing to the same problem - larger and longer floods, and bigger inundation depth of floods," Dr Erkens told BBC News.
But an inundation of "available material" can create its own set of problems, and futurists trying to identify the skills that will be needed in coming decades should not overlook a talent for cutting the inessential.
The shortfall means the world is on track for warming of 3C or 4C, which will cause a cascade of problems including extreme weather events, deadly heatwaves, coastal inundation by the rising seas and extinction of many of the world's animal species.
