Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution

Re:Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the i... by cjensen on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:19PM (#22007654)

Boiling water is at 100C at standard pressure full stop. It is not affected by weather (humidity or air temperature). It is not affected by location unless your change of location involves a change in altitude which accompanying pressure change.

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Re:Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the i... by im3w1l on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:43PM (#22008158)

Air pressure changes with weather. It's easily visible in old school barometers like http://www.4physics.com/phy_demo/pressure/baro_exp1.jpg

It varies in a range of about +5% to -5% of average pressure.

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Re:Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the i... by Retric on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:14AM (#22008735)

Which was known about at the time. The ideal gas law for example dates back to 1834 or 27 years before the oldest measurements in this dataset. But even that was not needed with Barometer’s dating back to 1643 and vacuum pumps originating in 1650 allowed for pressure calibration making the current weather unimportant.

Anyway, I think people are vastly underestimating just how far scientists where calibrating things back then. Clock making for example cares deeply about the current temperature.

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