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Storm surge.
educate thyself: http://climatecommission.angry...

Bingo. Mod up.

the problem with sea level rise that deniers miss (willfully ignore) isn't the (roughly) steady state level of the water (a threat, but a much more long term threat for all but the low lying island peoples).

The much more immediate short term problem is surge, both normal and storm. Particularly storm.
Some places have more surge than others and will experience rising sea levels more quickly.

But everyplace is susceptible to storm surge, and rising seas make storm surge many many times more damaging and dangerous.

Already we've seen this with both Katrina and Sandy in our own country. It's been estimated that Sandy caused nearly 40% more damage that it would have without sea level rise being a factor, contributing to a much larger storm surge. Think about it: you have a massive storm front, hundreds of miles across. Just adding an inch of height to the volume of surge equates to many millions of gallons of extra volume, not to mention extra momentum, able to penetrate far futher inland. And we've seen the seas rise nearly 8 inches in the past 120 years or so. Storm surge risk evaluations, done every ten years, have been increasing. As well as the number of events and severity, and the actual damage caused.

These images describe quite well, what we are already seeing happen:
http://climatecommission.angry...
http://ian.umces.edu/imagelibr...
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/de...

Looks like he has: http://grond.angrygoats.net/torrent/2011%20Datapacks%20BCP_IP_TSP_PEP_ECP_WPP_Release%203.tar.xz.torrent

Link to the torrent of the census data from the article:
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2013/04/12/2011-australian-census-release-3/

Since the data is available for free (obfuscated or not) and was released under a CC license, technically this should all be considered legal, right? Not that it should be necessary of course.

The obfuscation is probably because hosting and bandwidth are not cheap in Oz and some inventive public servant (stop snickering, they do exist, there aren't many of them but they do exist) came up with a way to reduce the bandwidth bill. With the current emphasis on public service spending and impending election, this wouldn't surprise me.

Either that or some hopeless public servant coder has no idea what they've done.

Could be either case really, I've seen both.

FtFA:

http://blog.angrygoats.net/2013/04/12/2011-australian-census-release-3/

Indeed they have!

Link to the torrent of the census data from the article:
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2013/04/12/2011-australian-census-release-3/

Since the data is available for free (obfuscated or not) and was released under a CC license, technically this should all be considered legal, right? Not that it should be necessary of course.

Ok, I will concede that it is more confusing, especially if you have to create folders, and mount them, edit fstab etc. Fortunately, this is all being worked on. The gnome project has an interesting program that should be included when it is released in september called the Gnome Volume Manager. It even has inputs on what to do when you plug in a digital camera. I have a feeling that the "mount" command will shortly become a thing of the past for Aunt Millie.