But that’s the same argument that people use against Celsius: “the freezing and boiling points of water is an arbitrary scale, I prefer Fahrenheit because it’s more human centric” (Even though it’s not). What you’re saying is equally as arbitrary, the average temperatures of the planet as a whole is still not a human centric frame of reference.
They’re both arbitrary, the only scale that has any claim on not being arbitrary is Kelvin, but I don’t care to get a weather forecast that it’s going to be 294° tomorrow. it makes sense to put the values I use in my everyday life inside of a reasonable range, and the thing I use temperature for the most is weather, so I like using a scale that puts weather in that range. If I was a chemist or had some job where the boiling point of water was more relevant to me then I might care that it sits at a nice number like 100, but the way my life is now it just doesn’t seem relevant
But that’s the same argument that people use against Celsius: “the freezing and boiling points of water is an arbitrary scale, I prefer Fahrenheit because it’s more human centric” (Even though it’s not). What you’re saying is equally as arbitrary, the average temperatures of the planet as a whole is still not a human centric frame of reference.
They’re both arbitrary, the only scale that has any claim on not being arbitrary is Kelvin, but I don’t care to get a weather forecast that it’s going to be 294° tomorrow. it makes sense to put the values I use in my everyday life inside of a reasonable range, and the thing I use temperature for the most is weather, so I like using a scale that puts weather in that range. If I was a chemist or had some job where the boiling point of water was more relevant to me then I might care that it sits at a nice number like 100, but the way my life is now it just doesn’t seem relevant