° Celsius

English

Noun

° Celsius (plural ° Celsius)

  1. Alternative form of degree Celsius.
    • 2006 December 14, Edmund Conway, “OECD: Global warming could spell ruin for Alps”, in The Daily Telegraph‎[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 January 2016:
      But it warned that the number of resorts enjoying these kind of conditions would fall from 599 to 500 if temperatures rose by only 1° Celsius - as is expected within 14 years. A 4° Celsius rise would reduce the number to just 200. […] Of the countries studied, Germany is most at risk, the OECD said, with only a 1° Celsius rise in temperatures effectively reducing the number of snow-reliable areas by 60pc.
    • 2015 December 11, Derek Watkins, “China’s Coastal Cities, Underwater”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2015:
      Barring large amounts of spending on shoreline barriers and flood control systems, these images show what China would face if carbon emissions cause global temperatures to rise by 2° Celsius (3.6°F), the current international target by 2100, or by 4° Celsius (7.2°F), roughly the warming predicted if no action is taken to curb emissions.
    • 2021 June 18, Jason Samenow, Dylan Moriarty, Laris Karklis, Diana Leonard, Artur Galocha, “How a heat dome is pushing extreme temperatures to new heights in the West”, in The Washington Post‎[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 June 2021:
      Temperature / 0° Celsius 21.1° C 37.8° C
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