Tonight, the Antiplanner will speak in Camarillo, California (some 40 miles west of Burbank) about smart growth and high-speed rail. If you are in Ventura County, I hope to see you there.
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I’ll miss you by a day Randal. We’ll catch up!
DS
Saw a mouse in the WMATA this morning. It was exploring an empty gallon milk jug scattered among other trash in the “spitting wells” between the platform and the concrete vaults that arch over the underground space. Other than trash and all the “spit” and gum down in those nasty places are coins, people toss pennys down there as well.
Private transportation guarantees me a seat, climate control, the smell and sound sensations of my choice, and perhaps even the conversations of my choice. So all advocates of public, mass transportation want take away those previously-listed amenities and make me deal with the “spitting wells”, vermin, and other negative attributes of the WMATA.
What part of “free enterprise” do these advocates not get??
You sound like some one that has never been in a parking lot or a shopping mall.
I can’t figure out what you mean. Parking lots at a Shopping Mall get washed everytime it rains. It never rains underground, every bit of spittle ever expectorated is still down there. There are ladders in the spitting wells and occasionally or a broom with a home-made extension so the wells can be swept clean. Of ourse, they are just sweeping up the trash, all the grime, dust, spittle, etc just continues to accumulate.
I don’t know why people are spitting, though what ever they are spitting into needs to be covered with some sort of a hatch.
Also as some one that has cleaned parking lots in the past, some times a high pressure hose is needed to remove grime in places.
Enjoy the warm weather! When you get back to the Bend area, you’re looking at rain and high temps at least ten degrees below normal and a cooling Pacific Northwest!
Fascinating.
Frank, do these data depict a climate signal or noise, do you think?
DS
The next decade will tell.
Frank wrote:
Enjoy the warm weather! When you get back to the Bend area, you’re looking at rain and high temps at least ten degrees below normal and a cooling Pacific Northwest!
Curiously, residents of the East, after some very hot weather last week, are looking at a few days of cooler-than-normal weather even here.
Climate seems to be changing differently in different regions, and the correlation to this deep solar minimum piques curiosity.
Europe has had several cold winters in a row. I could post a sat photo of the entire UK covered in snow from the trough of the minimum or news articles about Europe’s most recent terrible winter.
The sun is eerily quiet now, and the forecast is for low solar activity the next two cycles. In the short term (although I’ll be in my 60s at the projected uptick in solar activity), the decreased activity may offset human impacts. Long term? Who knows? I’ll be gone, and unlike some here who decry overpopulation, I haven’t reproduced and all the breeders’ kids can figure it out.
Doesn’t mean other places aren’t warming. But a substantial chunk of land mass in the northern hemisphere seems to be strongly affected by the solar cycle/La Nina/El Nino correlation.
I hope things turn around. Haven’t been able to grow tomatoes in the PNW since the mid-2000s. Not that I have a fifth of an acre to grow tomatoes, unlike some posters here who decry urban sprawl.
and the correlation to this deep solar minimum piques curiosity…the solar cycle/La Nina/El Nino correlation
We are not in a deep solar minimum at this time. Solar max is next year about February. And AFAIK there is no solar cycle/ENSO correlation. If there is an empirical paper that states such, I’d like to see it.
And 2010 was the hottest year in the global instrumental record, and 2011 the hottest La Nina. The hypothesis for Europe winter cold is that the melting Arctic is changing the Arctic Oscillation, which results in a retrograde of the winter Atlantic ridge in the jet stream to the west and brings the cold air from the north over Great Britain. This also may affect the summer jet, and thus the reason for the deadly/destructive recent France and Russian summer heat waves, and the apparent change in western monsoon that has failed to bring summer monsoon to the Horn of Africa and parts of the Indian subcontinent. That is, AGW may well be changing ‘standard’ global wx patterns.
/geek
DS
“We are not in a deep solar minimum at this time.”
There is only one sunspot. Not in a minimum? Ok.
“And AFAIK there is no solar cycle/ENSO correlation. If there is an empirical paper that states such, I’d like to see it.”
I feel like I’ve posted this from the National Science Foundation before… July 2009 Journal of Climate:
Press Release 09-139
Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate
There is only one sunspot. Not in a minimum? Ok.
Nevertheless, its true. Solar max is ~Feb 2013. We just recently had a spate of activity that resulted in some nice aurorae, quiet now.
But wrt the solar-ENSO, that link doesn’t actually posit a direct causation, but another author in that story tries to. I actually found this after I wrote the above, where they try and tease out if/what are the mechanisms. Meehl explains the gist of the .ppt a bit at the end of that piece you linked to.
DS
OFP2003 wrote:
Saw a mouse in the WMATA this morning. It was exploring an empty gallon milk jug scattered among other trash in the “spitting wells†between the platform and the concrete vaults that arch over the underground space. Other than trash and all the “spit†and gum down in those nasty places are coins, people toss pennys down there as well.
I don’t think the area between and near the rails gets much of a cleaning. Though WMATA claims that it forbids the consumption of food on the rail system so that rats and mice don’t enter the system looking for food.
May I ask what part of the system you were on?
Private transportation guarantees me a seat, climate control, the smell and sound sensations of my choice, and perhaps even the conversations of my choice. So all advocates of public, mass transportation want take away those previously-listed amenities and make me deal with the “spitting wellsâ€, vermin, and other negative attributes of the WMATA.
You mean WMATA’s rail system is not “clean and efficient,” adjectives used by railfans to describe this system and others (but never highways – wonder why?).
What part of “free enterprise†do these advocates not get??
Most promoters of urban rail transit (at least in the U.S.) are not interested in “free enterprise.” They prefer phrases like “dedicated” [taxpayer] “funding.”
Roads are not in any way “free enterprise”, though you are not against them.
I call the area between the platform and the coffer-vaulted concrete walls the “spitting wells” I understand that the tracks aren’t going to get much of a cleaning. I figure trains of the future will be more like Denver Airport’s train doors so you not can’t see the tracks but you can’t jump on them either. But that gap between the outside wall of the station and the guardwalls on the pedestrian platform. The mouse is a resident of l’enfant Plaza.
@Mr.oToole, for the time I’m stuck working someplace where they 19th century is in vogue, it’s a medical thing, and they think cloth around the neck is important. Where can I can get some of the pimp ties you have? I’m looking for something different to spice things up.
Those aren’t “pimp” ties…those are “cowboy” or “mountain man” ties! Randal resembles a “deep rural” mountain man a lot more than an urban (or suburban, for that matter) pimp, IMHO…
I think he’s either looking for a Bolo Tie or a Kentucky Tie.
The bolo tie is the official state neckware of both Arizona and New Mexico.
Yep, the Kentucky tie is what I had in mind. Thanks!
Weakest solar cycle in 200 years. That is unless Dan in his limitless knowledge tries to redefine more terms. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304672404579183940409194498