It will be interesting to see how fast Boring company progresses and if that will be a scalable solution. If there is going to be a large capital investment, it would be great if it also sped up travel times.
Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
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Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they end up shipping the vast majority of coal You may be thinking of the entity that used to be known as Conrail. Amtrak is passenger only.
>could at least tax GP may also be thinking of the U.S. House of Representatives. Amtrak has no power to levy taxes.
Amtrak (or carriers, in this case I believe Conrail may be what I meant) can charge money for their services. When I mentioned taxing the goods I didn't mean sending in the IRS and instead I was referring to levying an additional fee for the costs induced by the usage of their service.
The word tax has multiple meanings, and my usage above was indeed correctly utilizing one of those meanings.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly not the CEI's (Competitive Enterprise Institute) who distributed your figure. They have a long history of spreading disinformation, going back to the fight over tobacco policy: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise...
I never understood why "climate skeptics" don't see past this glaringly obvious fact: almost every time there is some "rebuttal" against climate change, the source comes back to a conservative think tank or oil company. Hello??? It's so frustrating.
Isn't "attacking the motive" a logical fallacy?
https://study.com/academy/lesson/attacking-the-motive-fallac...
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that a no-brainer? In Seattle, first you have to get to the airport. Sea-Tac isn't exactly in Seattle. Depending on where you're coming from, King Street may be easier to reach. Then there's the bit about arriving at the airport 2 hours before, in order to pass through security. Yeah, you can probably cheat on the two hours, depending on how long security lines tend to be at Sea-Tac. Still, it's a chunk of tim…
> Have I missed something? Yes. Sitting for hours at the Amtrak station waiting for a delayed train to arrive.
Have you never taxied at an airport waiting for a gate to open or had a flight delayed/cancelled?
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that a no-brainer? In Seattle, first you have to get to the airport. Sea-Tac isn't exactly in Seattle. Depending on where you're coming from, King Street may be easier to reach. Then there's the bit about arriving at the airport 2 hours before, in order to pass through security. Yeah, you can probably cheat on the two hours, depending on how long security lines tend to be at Sea-Tac. Still, it's a chunk of tim…
One major downside is that the schedule is very unpredictable between Portland and Seattle, due to right of way being preempted by freight traffic. It's not uncommon to have to pull into a siding and sit for 10-20 minutes several times. That said the comfort between train and air travel is night and day, you get much more space, plenty of outlets, room to get up and move around, purchase food and drinks, even if the…
On the east coast Amtrak is doing this thing where they pull the dining cars off of long distance trains and have snack cars only and offer lower roomette fares in return. Reviews are mixed.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
>could at least tax GP may also be thinking of the U.S. House of Representatives. Amtrak has no power to levy taxes.
Amtrak (or carriers, in this case I believe Conrail may be what I meant) can charge money for their services. When I mentioned taxing the goods I didn't mean sending in the IRS and instead I was referring to levying an additional fee for the costs induced by the usage of their service. The word tax has multiple meanings, and my usage above was indeed correctly utilizing one of those meanings.
Conrail doesn't really exist anymore as a Class 1 carrier.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#77> Water levels around Wilmington would rise 2 feet by 2050. That reflects the median of possible warming scenarios 2 feet is the median!? And things continue to accelerate? I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? The maps of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut look lik…
From my understanding that is likely going to be local to the eastern US seaboard. The gulf stream goes northeast towards Europe, and "pulls" water away from the east coast, effectively making the sea level on the east coast about 6' lower. So the gulf stream just has to lose a little strength to make local sea levels rise drastically, even if globally sea levels are barely rising.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#78> Water levels around Wilmington would rise 2 feet by 2050. That reflects the median of possible warming scenarios 2 feet is the median!? And things continue to accelerate? I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? The maps of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut look lik…
> I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? According to Sir David King (head U.K. climate scientist) in 2004, all continents other than Antarctica will be uninhabitable by 2100 due to manmade global warming.[1] I wouldn't be worried about New York. I'd be on the next ship…
King is not stating that here. He just says that the earth was no fun place to be, the last time greenhouse gasses were as high as they’ll likely be in 2100.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
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Huh? Big bend is nowhere near sea level..
Rising temperatures melting glacial/mountain ice more dramatically contributing to river water carry? I'm not saying that's specifically the case, just throwing out a possible hypothesis. Plenty of others exist (bad rainy season, tributary re-routing due to industry, removal of forested areas that would have previously soaked up water, etc). Could be a global warming thing, could be a seasonal thing, could be anythin…
As a general rule, higher temperatures lead to atrophied snowmelt rivers because there's not as much accumulation. That's one of the contributing factors for water problems in a lot of Western (U.S.) areas.
Re: Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
#80Misleading title: should be 'will drown.' Not once in the article was any current drowning of the infrastructure mentioned.