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: The most common scales are the Celsius scale ( formerly called centigrade ), denoted °C, the Fahrenheit scale ( denoted °F ), and the Kelvin scale ( denoted K ), the latter of which is predominantly used for scientific purposes by conventions of the International System of Units ( SI ).