A word about global warmingPat: I admire the effort behind your collecting the plethora of those useless units. As to the request for comments - on the negative, it is the usual metric-perception-harming expressing numbers, particularly with energy usage, in more that two significant digits.
I'd change the values to 1600 PJ, 1000 PJ, 290 PJ, and retain 56 PJ. This despite the stupidity of the original numbers - they were obvioulsy converted from something else by a person with a calculator but no brains. Particularly with coal where the energy content can differ 40 % from one mine to another. And use symbols. Not everybody speaks English or knows the english spelling of the unit words or prefix words. Let's use SI among us to its ultimate goal - a unified language of measurements world over, regardless of cultural preferences. Stan J. PS: A note to the other Stan: For the above reason there is no such thing as kL in SI. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: 07 May 05, Saturday 05:57 Subject: [USMA:38593] A word about global warming Dear All, Last week's discussion about global warming measurements stirred my stumps to the extent that I have now revised the article, 'A word about global warming' and you can download the three page pdf file from http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/AWordAboutGlobalWarming.pdf I would appreciate any comments or suggestions that you might have. Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305, Belmont, 3216 Geelong, Australia Phone 61 3 5241 2008 Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online monthly newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. Subscribe at http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter Pat is recognised as a Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist (LCAMS) with the United States Metric Association. He is also editor of the 'Numbers and measurement' section of the Australian Government Publishing Service 'Style manual - for writers, editors and printers'. He is a Member of the National Speakers Association of Australia and the International Federation for Professional Speakers. See: http://www.metricationmatters.com This email and its attachments are for the sole use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. This email and its attachments are subject to copyright and should not be partly or wholly reproduced without the consent of the copyright owner. Any unauthorised use of disclosure of this email or its attachments is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender by return email.
