Basically, the argument boils down to 2 points:

1. Fahrenheit is more granular, by design

2. Americans are used to Fahrenheit and learning new things is not cognitively free.

Fahrenheit, as a scale, was created in a similar fashion to Celsius. But then the Fahrenheit scale was multiplied by 4. Like Celsius, Fahrenheit starts at freezing and boiling points - of brine (salt water), not pure water. This gives a lower freezing point (and boiling point?). Then that output was multiplied by 4, giving us the scale we have today.

My preferred solution is a compromise -- create a new temperature scale that is just Celsius multiplied by 4. On this scale:

  * Water freezes at 0 degrees
  * A nice room temperature is 80 degrees
  * Water boils at 400 degrees
  * Your oven dial would run from 260 degrees to 1040 degrees.