Unfortunately the nightly news the day of the announcement said the Paris negotiators had agreed to hold the temperature to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. I wish I had an automatic twitter feed or something to send an instant message. "Use Celsius! People will get used to it!"
Mark Henschel On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net> wrote: > The Washington Post has been reporting extensively on these meetings and > for the most part has stopped converting Celsius into Fahrenheit. They seem > to feel that people now understand Celsius. I suspect the country could > make that conversion outside of other metrication fairly easily. The main > thing would be getting people to understand what is hot, what is pleasant, > what is cold, etc. without having to convert in their heads. > > After all we are I think the last country to still measure temperature > "Old School" ... > > Carleton > > -----Original Message----- > From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of > c...@traditio.com > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 13:30 > To: USMA List Server <usma@colostate.edu> > Subject: [USMA 21] Paris Agreement in Degrees Celsius > > I was interested to note that in the reporting I heard about the Paris > "climate control" agreement, the goal was, except in one case, stated as > "1 degree Celsius." Only in one instance did a reporter add "1.8 degrees > Fahrenheit." It was nice to hear the whole Celsius number, whereas > Fahrenheit had to add a decimal point! > > I think that this reporting reflects my suspicion that news media are (1) > becoming more internationalized and (2) are generally too lazy, or in too > much of a rush, to convert units from metric. (2) would imply that the > news media now assume that Americans are at least somewhat conversant with > metric unit. Associated Press, which has always been a Luddite as far as > metric is concerned, is shrinkin in importance compared to Reuters and AFP, > which are more international in flavor. > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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