[Ica-osgeo-labs] Mediterranean Drought Worst in 900 Years

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Michael,

This is exactly what we are up to with the Europa Challenge. Hope we can find a way for GIM and our efforts to join up!

We dearly need cities working in concert with each other to solve their common urban management issues, and with a strong accent on sustainability with regard to energy, infrastructure, transportation and agriculture.

This recent news that February was the warmest month on record for this planet, not by a little, but disturbingly anomalous degree. The same for the last Quarter as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/weather/february-warmest-ever-month/index.html

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

Cities are the key element to a dynamic society. Working collaboratively, they can well serve themselves in benefitting each other.

-Patrick

From: Finn, Michael [mailto:mfinn at usgs.gov]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 2:37 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Mediterranean Drought Worst in 900 Years

Patrick et al.,

Relative to your Smart Cities initiative, have you seen this parallel (?) effort: http://www.gim-international.com/content/news/ordnance-survey-seeking-for-european-smart-city-standards.

Mike



On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>> wrote:
Dear Open Solution Providers, a plea and a plan. . .

The existential-sized problem we must face of climate change can have no stronger indication than this:
http://eijournal.com/news/industry-insights-trends/mediterranean-drought-worst-in-900-years

This mega-drought will not only dramatically affect access to fresh water, agriculture and hydro power, but the little rain we do get is increasingly coming in torrential bursts that can do as much damage to infrastructure as it does to alleviate the drought. Asia, Australia and the Americas are experiencing as much. Each year for the last several, have trended warmer than the next. No rocket science required to see where this takes us.

Cities need to be working collaboratively on the tools to manage urban infrastructure, saving money and increasing innovation for sustainable solutions, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart

This is not simply Climate Change, this is climate unraveling (and society in its wake) per the graph of annual temperature on this page, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87359

And the video on this page,
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015

The cities of the world must find a way to work in each other's interest. OpenCitySmart is a beautiful start! What university will step forward and begin this enterprise in earnest? It takes just one Computer Science department working with their local city to build the first OpenCitySmart solution. OpenCitySmart can be the first step on a journey the world can join and then take together. Cities working together can decide the direction this world moves toward, collaboration and camaraderie or isolation and frustration.

-Patrick

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