claim: “In their award winning book, ‘Taken By Storm’ ( 2007 ), Canadian researchers Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick explain : ‘Temperature is not an amount of something [ like height or weight ].
evidence: Nevertheless, a thermodynamic temperature does in fact have a definite numerical value that has been arbitrarily chosen by tradition and is dependent on the property of a particular materials; it is simply less arbitrary than relative degrees scales such as Celsius and Fahrenheit.