I came across your column on what zero means on the Fahrenheit scale. You blew it. You said that, unlike 32 or 212 degrees, zero degrees corresponded to nothing in nature—it was merely an arbitrarily ...

FARGO — Any temperature below zero evokes images of extreme discomfort. Likewise, any day over 100 degrees is certainly a scorcher. These two benchmarks were somewhat arbitrarily chosen by Gabriel ...

That's according to climatologist John Christy, who is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Centre (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). His ...

ANSWER: Short answer: A temperature of 273 Celsius (Centigrade) is twice as hot as zero degrees Celsius. That is a very tricky question and one that does not lead to an easy explanation. Part of the ...