The book's final chapter, however, takes on a more regretful tone as the author turns his attention to climate change and what it means for cold places.

ECONOMIST: Low temperatures

Daytime temperatures were a little below average generally, and rather cold in places.

BBC: Raindrops on a window pane

The only challenge is the weather, which can get cold in some places.

CNN: Highways unleash America's wandering, restless spirit

So, cold, dry places should warm much more than warm, wet ones.

FORBES: Throwing Cold Water On The U.N.'s Fat Tail

It was quite cold in a couple of places.

BBC: London 2012: Four Paralympic flames kindled around the UK

The insects show up en mass throughout North America in late September and October as they seek hiding places for the coming cold.

BBC: In North Carolina, woolly worms predict winter weather

Last year, 75 years after a British climber, George Mallory, disappeared, similar numbers had already started out when Mallory's body was discovered close to the summit, his right leg broken in two places but the flesh miraculously preserved in the cold, dry air.

ECONOMIST: Madness and its men

Times have changed: nowadays they tend to be sophisticated, if still atmospheric, places offering Italian and international vintages, delicious cheeses and cold cuts.

BBC: An evening out in Rome

Astronomers call the most promising of these places "Goldilocks planets, " because they orbit in a temperate zone not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water essential for carbon-based life as we know it.

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