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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