The phrase
"reliable thermometers" means thermometers that can be trusted to provide accurate and consistent temperature measurements.
Full definition
To ensure that you are adequately prepared to deal with such situations, you should have good and
reliable thermometer in your arsenal.
The failure of many tree ring series to respond to the warming of the second half of the 20th century — the fact that the rings widths go DOWN instead of up — calls into question the whole issue of whether or not tree rings
make reliable thermometers.
Divergence is something to be expected from reconstructions where proxies that are truly
not reliable thermometers are selected after comparing the response to the instrumental record and running out of proxies — as chance would predict — that turn upward in the modern warming period.
Now anyone would think the Sydney Obs would have had
extremely reliable thermometers and meticulous accounting in those days — and there would have been no station moves.
Most parents aren't doctors, and so having
a reliable thermometer can be the first step to knowing when to care for them at home, and when something is more serious.
Most parents aren't doctors, and so having
a reliable thermometer can be the first step -LSB-...]