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> "hothouse" temperatures could stabilize 4°C to 5°C (39 to 41 Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial levels. A change of 4-5°C is a change of 7-9 degrees Fahr
by rntz 8y ago
> "hothouse" temperatures could stabilize 4°C to 5°C (39 to 41 Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial levels.
A change of 4-5°C is a change of 7-9 degrees Fahrenheit, not 39-41.
- 0xfaded 8y agoLol, looks like the Google result of "convert 4C to Fahrenheit". In the authors defence, it isn't their fault the Americans still use Fahrenheit.
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- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoWasn't 100 Fahrenheit the temperature of a chicken on tuesday in the sunshine? Can't quite remember how that scale was created.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoI always heard it was the rectal temperature of a cow, but that's not what wikipedia tells me, so someone probably made that up. One advantage of the Fahrenheit scale is that the range from 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to temperatures people normally deal with.
- 0xfaded 8y agoThe second point is 96, human body temperature.
- Eurongreyjoy 8y agoAfter moving to Europe I am completely on board with the simplicity of the metric system, however I do prefer the Fahrenheit scale for exactly the reason you described above. A human will face winter weather conditions from 0-32F which converts to negative values on the Celsius scale (not practical). On the other end of the spectrum for summer time conditions, there is a wider range of values to ascribe to changes in temperature from 60F-100F or approx 16-38C.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoNegative numbers may be less practical in your eyes but they sound more dramatic and thus make complaining about the cold much more satisfying. ;)
- dkns 8y agoWhy is it not practical? We're taught in schools that water freezes below 0C and boils above 100C thus more than 0 = hotter, less than 0 = colder, more than 100 = you're melting. If you wake up and see less than 0 on thermometer you know it's freezing time.
- peeters 8y ago> there is a wider range of values to ascribe to changes in temperature from 60F-100F or approx 16-38C And why is that important? Are our bodies so finely tuned that it's important to know the difference between 104 and 105 F? Even in the less granular celsius, unless it's just about bragging rights everything is about brackets anyway. 30+: wear shorts and hydrate 20-30: comfortable in short sleeves 10-20: bring a light jacket 0-10: wear a sweater n10-0: wear a winter coat n20-n10: wear gloves and a hat n40-n20: no exposed skin
- 0xffff2 8y agoAm I missing something, or are we just adapted for very different climates? Freezing is "wear a sweater" to you? I don't own a winter coat, but if I did it would come out of the closet somewhere in the 5-10C range.
- peeters 8y agoYeah I mean it's certainly subjective and I aligned the numbers to fall at 10 degree boundaries. But that's roughly where I fall. Anything above freezing and I'll usually prefer a sweater with a light jacket to a full winter coat.
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- Eurongreyjoy 8y agoI'm also willing to admit that this is probably a case in which whatever system you grew up with, that's what you will prefer and no argument will sway your opinion in the other direction. (Although the metric system does have clear advantages)
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- EADGBE 8y agoIt's assuring to know their conceptualization of F is equal to my conceptualization of C (Read: some tricky math is required, none-the-less).
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- megaman22 8y agoPre-industrial levels when we were still coming out of significant cooling period. In every other period of human history, increased average temperatures have coincided with golden ages. Depending on where you peg your baseline for what "normal" temperatures are, the projections can look more or less scary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period I'm suspicious of anyone attempting to boil down the operations of such a dynamic, chaotic system as climate into simple cause and effect. There's so damn many things that feed back on each other, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that we think we understand. Much more research needs to be done.