On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:48, Bruce Raup wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was sent a proof copy of Tim Flannery's new book on global warming > entitled "The Weather Makers", and noticed that all the numbers in it > appeared to have been translated from metric originals to non-metric units. > I wrote to the American publisher, and they confirmed that they have > different editions for different markets, and that they translated all the > units for the American version.
You may want to contact Tim Flannery too. If I wrote a book like that, I would never agree to deleting all the metric measurements. I might add footnotes or an appendix so that people who don't know metric can make sense of them. phma
