Posted: Jan 17, 2015 9:31 pm
DavidMcC wrote:Does anyone know of a good service engineer, who can fix the decimal system?
EDIT: Never mind the earth, it's arithmetic that Clive is claiming is wrong.
We're not talking mathematics, we're talking temperature. Given that average global temperature measurement can not be done with absolute precision, the observed rise of 0.68C is close enough to a third of 2C for all practical purposes, and indeed Clive's statement that we've already had a third of the predicted 2C rise is true in the sense that 0.68 > 0.666...
I'm as pedantic as the next fellow, probably more, and I have a degree in pure mathematics, but it's clear to me (a) what Clive meant, and (b) that your pedantry here is as pointless as any I can recall in quite some time.