Meteorological instrumentation rain gauge. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit creates a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. In 1742, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, proposed the 'centigrade' temperature scale, the predecessor of the current Celsius scale. In 1783, the first hair hygrometer is demonstrated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. In 1806, Francis Beaufort introduced his system for classifying wind speeds. The April 1960 launch of the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, marked the beginning of the age where weather information became available globally. This was also used to measure the temperature of the surrounding air. A thermometer measures air temperature, or
Celsius 41.11 of what Moore shows of the current Bush administration." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" compared "Celsius 41.11" unfavorably to "FahrenHYPE 9/11", another documentary film aimed at rebutting the arguments made by Michael Moore. While Dargis felt that the purpose of "FahrenHYPE 9/11" was the detailed rebutting of the arguments put forward by Moore's film, she felt that the purpose of "Celsius 41.11" was to "make you afraid — very, very afraid". She stated that "Celsius 41.11" "presents a vision of the world verging on the apocalyptic". Dargis concluded "finally [the film is] interesting only because it represents another