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News agencies need to stop reporting global warming temperatures in Celsius for US audiences. A single Fahrenheit degree is 5/9 of a Celsius degree! US audience

by calebh 8y ago

News agencies need to stop reporting global warming temperatures in Celsius for US audiences. A single Fahrenheit degree is 5/9 of a Celsius degree! US audiences do not have an intuition about Celsius, so giving changes in that unit of measurement is worthless.

singularity2001 8y ago
they should use Kelvin, it's neutral
- QML 8y ago
  But Celsius and Kelvin have the same unit of measure; they’re only offsetted by 273 degrees.
  - singularity2001 8y ago
    yes I tried to sneak in °C via °K :)