3001: "Temperature Scales"

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3001: "Temperature Scales"

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Title text: In my new scale, °X, 0 is Earths' record lowest surface temperature, 50 is the global average, and 100 is the record highest, with a linear scale between each point and adjustment every year as needed.

My system is just to categorise it as "shorts weather", "trousers weather", or "big coat weather".
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Re: 3001: "Temperature Scales"

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I'd personally say Rankine is less cursed than Fahrenheit, any absolute scale of temperature is rooted in some understanding of thermodynamics as opposed to just picking a temperature you like and calling that zero.
Anyway, in my new temperature scale zero is the hottest possible temperature in the universe and it uses a logarithmic scale
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