 Although it is still orthodoxy today in the physics community that there is no consistent theory of thermodynamics for purely classical black holes (Unruh and Wald 1982; Wald 1999, 2001), i.e., when quantum effects are not taken into account, primarily because it seems that they must be assigned a temperature of absolute zero, if any at all. Curiel (2017a, Other Internet Resources)  has recently argued that this is not so. He argues, to the contrary, that there is a consistent way of treating purely classical black holes as real thermodynamical systems, that they should be assigned a temperature proportional to their surface gravity, and, in fact, that not to do so leads to the same kinds of inconsistencies as occur if one does not do so for black holes emitting Hawking radiation. 