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Talk:Science of global warming (view source)
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*I agree, and believe Ed will as well. Please make the changes, if you've a mind to. I have opened it. --[[User:TK|<small>Sysop-</small>TK]] <sub>[[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]]</sub> 14:00, 25 June 2007 (EDT)
*I agree, and believe Ed will as well. Please make the changes, if you've a mind to. I have opened it. --[[User:TK|<small>Sysop-</small>TK]] <sub>[[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]]</sub> 14:00, 25 June 2007 (EDT)
::I would like everything to be in English units, because our readership is primarily Americans and most Americans are unfamiliar with the [[metric units]] used in Europe and elsewhere abroad. We can supply metric equivalents in braces, as needed.
::Another advantage of Fahrenheit is it shows how imprecise the measurements and predictions are. There's only been one degree of warming, and it's not even very precisely measured. The "[[error bars]]" are bigger than the increase! In other words, temperature can only be measured within an accuracy of 3 or 4 degrees, while the 1 degree average increase is tiny in comparison.
::It is only in industrial countries like the U.S. that accurate measurements are kept, which leads into the concept of [[temperature trend]]s, the maintenance of [[weather station]]s, the "contamination" of the [[urban heat island]] effect and so on. Did you know that Atlanta (called "Hotlanta" by one US government website) is more than 5 degrees hotter than the surrounding rural countryside? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 14:15, 25 June 2007 (EDT)