We have always had huge day-to-day and year-to-year variations in our weather, and we always will do, and a couple of cold winters are no more evidence that climate change has stopped than a single summer heat-wave proves that global warming is happening.

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"There's no research to say that cold water drinkers burn more calories, " he says.

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Thus as they would have it, there was no need for anything more than a review of the cold record prepared by the independent counsel.

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We agree that it would be no small thing if post-Cold War Russia aligns itself more closely with the West.

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Its new alignments, no longer so wedded to cold-war geography, will probably be more effective.

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In the context of the cold war between America and Russia, a weakened Britain was no more than a marginal player.

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And that wind power will, on those cold winter days, be able to provide no electricity at all (or, to be more truthful, on some such winter days).

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