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

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Traditionally, the Lib Dems have been much more luke warm about private health care provision.

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The beauty and immediacy of the paintings is striking enough, but seeing them here - where the descendants of the artists are still living, and practising many of the rituals and bush skills that these images refer to - makes the connection to the past seem much more tangible, as warm as touch itself.

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There is clear evidence that winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and the much more recent Little Ice Age than either now or other comparably warm periods.

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The DoE challenged firms to develop a design that gave out a warm light similar to that from an incandescent bulbs but was much more energy efficient.

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And as science has discovered more about the workings of the climate, estimates of how much the earth will warm have tended to decrease.

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There was as always much, much more this week at Forbes Leadership, to keep you both enlightened and amused and warm your spirit as the days grow shorter and darker and colder.

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Temperatures are probably about the same today as during a "Roman Warm Period" slightly more than 2, 000 years ago, and much warmer than the "Dark Ages" that followed.

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Continuing to chew after the warm-up period seems to have required too much jaw-work, and burning more energy negated the benefits.

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