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: It has the symbol K. For everyday applications, it is often convenient to use the Celsius scale, in which 0 °C corresponds very closely to the freezing point of water and 100 °C is its boiling point at sea level.