Thread: Global Cooling Update: GISS Registers Largest Single Year-to-yearJanuary Temperature Drop Ever!
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Old February 24th 08, 04:15 PM posted to alt.global-warming,sci.environment,sci.skeptic,sci.geo.meteorology
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Default Global Cooling Update: GISS Registers Largest Single Year-to-yearJanuary Temperature Drop Ever!
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On Feb 23, 3:57 pm, dave wrote:
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Acutally, the people most apt to use the term "volatility" would be
those trading on stocks, bonds, or commodities.
Volatility is the measure of the state of instability. You think
weather
would be more volatile with global warming, I say that cooling would
have a more volatile effect.- A. McIntire
So McIntire is a stock broker?

So you're not smart enough to understand the definition?- A. McIntire

I thought Beta was the scientific term used to express in numbers the
"volatility" of a security.

As we are often talking about fluid dynamics (and almost never about the
markets), the "volatility" which applies would be the one which concerns
evaporation of water, which increases proportionately with atmospheric
temperature. Since vaporized water is a greenhouse gas, this
"volatility" results in a positive feedback loop.
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