Wishful thinking, IMO. Train tracks are susceptible to many problems caused by extreme weather: flooding, landslides, downed trees (and as others on this thread have shown, tornadoes). While airports are also susceptible to weather-related delays (obviously), a plane en route somewhere can many times simply divert around bad weather in its way. Trains almost never have have that option.
That's a pretty interesting video. I would have (wrongly) thought the risk with a tornado would be all secondary; debris on the track. I didn't think that cars could actually be blown right off the track.
Could we keep to real science please? There appears to be more cooling than warming right now, and the weather by the numbers is less extreme.
"Global warming" is somewhat of a clumsy phrase. However, there is a difference between weather and climate change.
More cooling? It was about 30deg warmer on Christmas. I was outside in my shirtsleeves, instead of a parka.
Wait, I thought you couldn't use weather to make claims about climate?
No. It's that individual weather events don't point out which way climate change is going, but climate change results in extreme weather conditions.
Has anyone ever proposed in recent times that train travel can ever become more practical than air travel?
The effects are of a different nature. Flooding can wash out tracks. Fallen trees and debris can block rails. Those aren't typical issues at airports.
