What Americans Who Worry About Climate Change Are Getting Wrong | New polling suggests people in the US and other wealthy countries underrate others’ anxiety about global warming.
Stop using Celsius to express climate change. Americans understand Fahrenheit temps. The numbers will look bigger anyway and will be easier for them understand.
@9tr6gyp3@silence7
I think it's good if they use a language the rest of the world understands, assuming they speak to a global audience. I long ago forgot how Fahrenheit works.
I know. We’re all masking because the levers of power have stopped working and we’re going to crash.
We’re just trying not to spend our final moments freaking the fuck out fruitlessly.
What we are getting wrong is feeling like killing any billionaire is any more morally wrong than squishing a mosquito that landed on your arm.
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To American climate change scientists/activists:
Stop using Celsius to express climate change. Americans understand Fahrenheit temps. The numbers will look bigger anyway and will be easier for them understand.
@9tr6gyp3 @silence7
I think it's good if they use a language the rest of the world understands, assuming they speak to a global audience. I long ago forgot how Fahrenheit works.
I agree with you, but Americans will never understand Celsius like they do Fahrenheit.