Washington, D.C. – President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order today renaming the Fahrenheit temperature scale “AmeriTemp.” “I did it, folks, it’s official”, straight from the White House.
“Europe’s metric system, total disaster,” Trump said at the signing. “Their climate scientists can’t even pick a name for temperature. Centigrade? Celsius? Who knows? They’re confused, weak. I’m fixing that with AmeriTemp—best name, strong, all-American. Done.”
The order says every federal agency has to use “AmeriTemp” now. Documents, weather reports, everything. It’s still 32 for freezing, 212 for boiling—perfect numbers, tremendous numbers—but now it’s got a name that wins.
“And who’s this Kelvin guy?” Trump added. “Nobody knows him. Some scientist, probably a loser. We don’t need that. AmeriTemp’s for the people, my people, the best people.”
The White House says it’s about leadership. America’s number one, even in temperature. Critics are complaining, like always, but supporters love it. Agencies are moving fast to make it happen. That’s it, folks—AmeriTemp, here to stay.
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Glad to see it. 🤣🤣
April Fools?
Got me, that’s fer sure.
How can one tell these days?
It smells like April Fools, but I still wouldn’t put it past him to actually do that 🙂
Gray Connelly’s reference to many Trump’isms has been “Troll level: Grandmaster”
Trump is definitely the best Troll!
He likes needling the radical Left. And they fall right into the trap every time.
They’re the best ones
No source and not in the news at all.
Oh, happy day! With news like this…
And a good one because it is absolutely plausible.
At first, I was looking forward to writing the temperatures as: 78 degrees A.
I forgot it was April’s fools, as I was reading this I was thinking this it was put out by the Onion.
i do appreciate a good laugh. Fahrenheit is bit like old English LSD (pounds, shillings and pence), of its time.
Fahrenheit sounds German to me.
Fahren – drive
Heit – unity
Of course old English is not far.
Who’s laughing? It’s a damn good idea. Greenlanders will be glad to adopt it.. And I’m in no mood. It’s snowing hard heck right now and I have pruning to do.
°A
Not to be confused with Angstrom units.
The “Bee”. I love it.
Ain’t nuthin wrong with Fahrenheit. Smaller degrees provides more precision without using decimal decimal points. You don’t have to use negative numbers right at the very important freezing point of water.
Take Kelvin and you never miss negative numbers 😀
It would be nice if scientists used Kelvin for everything, but they don’t.
Nurse: Excellent, you have no fever. Your temperature is normal…315K
Doctor : No, no, nurse. I said “Slip off his spectacles.”
Ahhh! The old ones are the best!
315 K is 107.3 Fahrenheit, which as a body temperature is life-threatening. Normal body temperature for a healthy person is about 310 K.
Scientist use absolute Kelvin scale “for everything”, the C scale is for layman everyday use.
No, we use both C and K, depending on the need. K = C + 273 (273.15 actually), so it is simple for students to convert it. Most reaction conditions are recorded as C by most chemists and biologists. Physicists are more likely to use K for many things as are Physical Chemists.
Same is true for Rankine.
I’m a Purdue alum, and we speak Rankine. In fact, I could swear I posted that here, but it’s gone.
I hear he makes good jeans.
I heard that Trump prefers Rankine.
Yes, but the slower among the hoi poloi would break out in fear if told the temperature was a balmy 294 K.
Nothing wrong with C. Using negative at the very important point freezing point is more intuitive that negative in F.
I’m a Murcan but I prefer Celsius and SI units. I’ll die long before seeing anyone agree with me over here. I don’t give a rat’s tail who agrees or disagrees. Freedom!
I agree with you. I’m fluent in both. Still wish you good health.
Chuckle.
“And who’s this Kelvin guy? Nobody knows him. Some scientist, probably a loser.”
“This Kelvin guy”, whose real name was William Thomson, helped to develop the trans-Atlantic cable, and discovered the absolute temperature scale. Not exactly a loser.
It was a joke. Don’t take it personal. 🙂
It’s a good start but doesn’t go far enough. Trump also needs to officially kill the use of the word “degrees “. Just think of all the paper that would save in publishing all the PhD theses on Climate Change. That alone might give us a decade long reprieve on the Tipping Points due all the carbon eating trees that would survive.
° enters the chat …
(that’s the degree symbol above)
ALT-248, if anyone remembers the old ASCII code. °
I always create ° with Alt+0176 🙂
248 is 25% less chance of a typo. 🙂
Windows has a little app called “Character Map”..
You can pick from a large number of symbols. Here’s just a small sample
©®ØŒƜȺȜʃ
Not so funny
Donald Trump has approved Keir Starmer’s deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-donald-trump-approves-keir-34971817#
Cheers pal.
Never mind the Chagos Islands. There’s another big island that Sir Stalin’s giving up. Used to ‘rule the waves’
Good one. It’s just common sense! Out my back door I have a yellow John Deere thermometer with F numbers on the left and C numbers on the right. For thirty years now, the F numbers have always given a bigger, more powerful indication of heat and cold! So sure, it’s a small thing now to change the “F” to “A” to celebrate the American comeback. Where’s my Sharpie? 🙂
Poisson d’Avril? In the spirit that this was written, despite April Fools finished in the U.K. three hours ago. Although in the current climate nothing would surprise me. Just imagine though, a Queen song would have to be rewritten for the American market (200 degrees that’s why they call me Mr Fahrenheit).
Poisson d’Avril is French for “April fish”. But this story about Trump renaming the Fahrenheit scale Ameri-Temp did seem fishy.
While President Trump got Mount McKinley back and gave America a new gulf, he should leave Fahrenheit alone. Ameri-temp would probably last as long as the months of Thermidor and Brumaire after the French Revolution, which quickly returned to their old names of July and November.
This was well done, because it does capture the spirit of Trump-style trolling. He’s a master. Having said that, I must say that there are really only two really good temperature scales in wide use. For people and every day living, Fahrenheit is ideal. We live in an environment that mostly ranges from 0 (bitter cold) to 100 (bloody hot), and you can feel a difference in temperature of about one degree. Indoors is about 70.
Celsius is too coarse and the 0 point is in an unfortunate position, because for much of the time, for those of is not in the tropics, we have to always be dealing with negative values. Most people don’t spend their days calibrating thermometers, so the zero point is not helpful, and woe betide anyone trying to live at 100C! I’ve lived in both F and C lands, and F is just much more useful.
So for day to day, use F, for science, use K. C is just too clumsy, but we’re forced to use it by international snobs. Who wants to have to add 273.15 to everything?
Well, below zero Celsius means frost. Easy peasy..
On a clear night, you can get frost when the temperatures are well above freezing.
When the sun is out, you can go well below freezing and not get frost.
So.. Celsius is Temperature for Dummies?
But really cold is -17C or so. Not so easy peasy. Where I live, the average temperature over the year is about 9.5C, which happens to be just about half way between really cold (0F) and really hot (100F). Ultra easy.
Chamberlin, of “multiple working hypotheses” fame, used Lord Kelvin as an example about a liquid earth. I had a French children’s book back from the war, hopefully still buried, on Mr. Fahrenheit. In a discussion over coffee it was pointed out that he picked zero logically at the freezing point. While it is considered proper to reward excellence, it would be better to stay with the actual science. Celsius made more sense as Centigrade, still a C but still trying to comprehend a Sverdrup. Over the years changed names can be a problem. As one of many examples, Velasco, Texas in is the geological literature but not in modern map indexes. If you don’t have anything better to do, let’s consider another change, oops me here too?
Similarly, I had a problem while doing my thesis field work. I was looking for an important, abandoned mine to take a sample. It was no where to be found on the maps I had access to. I deduced that because the original name had become politically incorrect since 1917, the USGS had obligingly changed the name on new maps to avoid offending anyone. The ‘new’ name’s translation was equivalent to the original name when taking into account changes in the definition of ‘polite’ speech. However, I could never be absolutely certain because there apparently is no audit trail of when and where the change(s) took place. If there is an audit trail, why? Because someone might be offended reading the original name, why not just leave it on the map?
Obviously, but why is that “unfortunate”? Does the very sight of a minus sign make you freeze like a deer in headlights, or something?
Ah. Welcome to Earth. Our planet is mostly made of water. Usually it’s important whether the water stays liquid, or… not..
(insert smug red faces, mostly Finnish, some Russians)
Story Tip: Greenland Furiously Making Snowballs In Preparation For American Military Invasion
I hear Will Ferrell has enlisted.
LOL well played 🙂
ApriliTemp, more like, All temperatures will equal 1. Courtesy of Anthony and Charles.
We had a lot of fun with this one. Especially “that Kelvin guy”
Fun April 1 spoof. In the Trump spirit of the more serious Gulf of America.
We’re practically the only ones left who still use it, so might as well name it whatever we like.
Thunderstorms forecast for April 4 in the southern US. Night thunderstorms are the most dangerous.
What’s this got to do with the article?
The global warming crowd should love it, but because it is Trump, they will hate it. The reason is that now, the tipping point is not 1.5 C, but 2.7F, which is the same but to the under-educated, looks larger.
AmeriRollsRoyce
Did Donald Trump obtain permission from PRESIDENT FJB (Federal Judge Boasberg) before he issued the EO?
Here comes the restraining order!
The fact that people are unsure whether it is a joke or not says enough about the state of things today..
Miliband provides April, May, June, July and August fool
Every time he opens his mouth.
You have no sense of humor.
Just excellent . . .kudos to Charles Rotter for such well-written, concise, and timely (!) reporting on this important matter.
I’ll just add these additional comments that Elon Musk made in conjunction with Co-President Trump’s EO signing:
“With today’s Executive Order, our administration will be requiring much higher efficiency from the whole world, not just the US and not just in science but also across a range of domestic and international businesses. We’ll be eliminating all that confusion and need for back-and-forth temperature scale conversions, as noted by my Co-President. Heck, even the cost savings in printing books and documents will be ‘like something you’ve never seen before’. This will, of course, indirectly lower the price of all Tesla vehicles and help reduce the company’s sales decline rate. Let’s MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Someone needs to hug a pink pony!
As an April Fools joke this seems silly, but it’s no sillier than Trump in an exercise of personal vanity declaring the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The Spanish named that body of water in 1550 – 226 years years before the United States of America was formed.
As soon as Trump is out of office the EO changing its name will be terminated by his successor, and in the meantime geographers, media organizations, and essentially the rest of the world will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico.
And when Vance will become successor ?
😀
NEVER . . . Trump’s performance is making sure of that.
Ahh.. a rabid MSNBC watcher. !
Have you noticed? Anything negative about mr T and the TDS crowd jumps all over you. Like…EVERYTIME.
It’s like you hit a raw nerve. They are about as sensitive as the Woke crowd. Oh, the Irony!!😁
Yeah, you hit a nerve with Trump supporters when you distort what he says and does.
Indeed . . . even when you accurately quote what Trump said in the past versus what is says today.
That would be described as an unsubstantiated assertion.
Actually, as I have posted previously on WUWT under different articles, I appreciate “down” votes more than “up” votes because that signals I have indeed hit that raw nerve of upsetting the confirmation biases in the world views of a preponderance of readers.
I need not comment on the statistics that clearly show the number of “down” votes I receive is rarely matched by posted, rational rebuttals to my comments.
I don’t down vote, so none of them are mine.
I usually say something if I see an unsubstantiated assertion being put forth as established fact, whether it be on the subject of human-caused climate change, or politics.
Wasn’t it because of legislation that particularly mentions rules that apply to the Gulf of Mexico as opposed to “offshore”? If so, then it’s a brilliant side-step of a targeted legislation rather than pursuing full reversals of multiple laws or rules.
“A rose by any other name smells just as sweet.”
an exercise of personal vanity?
(relax, give it a rest)
Didn’t you move out of the country Rosie?
Your TDS slip is showing
“but it’s no sillier than Trump in an exercise of personal vanity declaring the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.”
Trump didn’t rename it the “Gulf of Trump”.
Trump says most of the coastline around the Gulf is American territory, so he thinks it should be named the Gulf of America. And now it is.
Well, there is what Donald Trump “says”, and then there is reality. To wit:
“Mexico has a little more than 2,046 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, pertaining to the states of Tamaulipas (which shares a border with Texas), Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán. The US on the other hand has a little less than 1,632 miles of Gulf coastline belonging to the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.”
— https://en.as.com/latest_news/google-maps-controversy-who-has-a-larger-percentage-of-the-gulf-of-mexico-the-united-states-or-mexico-n/
{my bold emphasis added}
Hint: that’s 414 miles more coastline being owned by Mexico than by the USA.
Of course, math, like truth, has never been a strong point with Donald Trump, our current Co-President.
BTW, the majority of nations in the world have not accepted Tump’s off-the-cuff renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
I gave you an upvote because I think that truth and facts should ‘trump’ politics. Besides that, I think we should accept history, even if it is embarrasing. That’s why I’m also in favor of retaining the original names of military bases, even if they were named after Confederates.
What is the point of having international bodies to consider names for the world to use if someone comes around and changes names just because he can? Surely Trump has more important promises to fulfill than giving comedians joke material. I voted for him, but he is only human and makes mistakes like the rest of us.
Trump makes some mistakes. None of them detrimental to the United States, to date.
I’ve done a little criticizing of Trump in the past. I think it was a mistake for him to pretend the U.S. should only be in Iraq if we get Iraq’s oil. Trump gives the wrong impression of American motives.
As it turned out, Trump never tried to get any Iraqi oil. Instead, he protected it for the Kurds and others involved.
I have a few other nitpicks for Trump. But nothing even close to making me abandon the man.
I did not and do not agree with Trump that the United States should not have gone to war with Saddam Insane. I think George W. Bush did exactly what he should have done. I think Trump disparaged the Iraq war mainly as a means to demean a political opponent, Bush.
President Bush accomplished his goal and America’s goal by freeing the Iraqi people from an insane dictator. I recall the Iraqis with big smiles showing their purple fingers which indicated they had voted in their first free election in decades. I remember the Iraqi economy starting to come to life. The future was looking good in Iraq. Thanks to George w. Bush and the United States.
Then, Obama and Biden got elected and they promptly turned Iraq over to Iran and that’s what has caused all the problems with Iraq. It wasn’t George’s fault, Donald.
Trump is a Great Leader!
He’s not perfect, but he’s pretty close. And he is head and shoulders above the rest, All of them.
Please can we start calling the moon “the Satellite of America”? I mean USA landed there first right? Like, it’s ours.
Nah, americans are naturally very humble people..😆
. . . with two huge and notable exceptions, now occupying the majority of MSM “news” articles.
Yes, despite my comment, I did get your sarcasm! 😉
I hope this is an April Fools joke. If not it sure shows his scientific ignorance.
Not for the first time..
So you say.