At least they use metric, even if they make mistakes. Yes, it was Celsius
temperatures; I have seen the same values in our papers, apart from those
Italian idiots they would never use Fahrenheit,
Han
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hooper, Bill and or Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: [USMA:11153] Re: Global warming in the Irish Times
> Han seems to be happy wih the Irish Times temperature reporting. I'm not
sure that I am satisfied with it.
>
> Neither of the two references to temperature (see excerpt below) identify
the value as degrees Celsius. (Is it?) Uncritical or uninformed readers
might interpret those temperatures to be in Fahrenheit.
>
> It is no more correct to say that a temperature is so-many "degrees"
(without specifying Celsius, Fahrenheit or other) than it would be to report
a distance between cities as so-many "distance units" without specifying
whether that means kilometres or miles.
>
> It is sloppy, careless usage to report a measured value without specifying
the unit completely and correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Hooper
>
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