On Friday, September 6, 2013 8:29:33 PM UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:24:05 +0100, Metman2012 wrote:



Did you hear David Shukman on the news - temperatures have halved (30 to

15)? And he's supposed to be a science correspondent.



I must be missing something 15 * 2 = 30... ergo 15 is half of 30.



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Cheers Dave.

Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

You can't say that when you are talking about temperature Dave. 0C is an arbitrary value. 30C is 303.15K and 15C is not half of that!