Cold Comfort
A Celebration of the Frozen World
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Cold Comfort
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Miranda Weiss
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Miranda Weiss
A joyful love letter to the cold and an impassioned call for its conservation
Global warming is often discussed as an issue of heat—but the even more pressing issue, as our planetary thermometer continues its slow rise, is one of cold. Cold places are warming at a faster rate than hot places, and this loss of cold will have major consequences for our world as it reshapes ecosystems and infrastructure alike. Cold Comfort is an impassioned argument for the importance of cold that compels readers to fall in love with this endangered resource before it’s too late.
Cold Comfort charts a year in author Miranda Weiss's hometown of Homer, Alaska, from an unusually dreary summer that opens into a frigid, lovely winter. Each chapter explores a different facet of the cold, as Weiss guides readers through majestic, icy adventures, from the cosmic cooling that led to our planet’s creation to the unique properties of ice and snow. In prose as beautiful and intricate as a snowflake, Cold Comfort draws from science, culture, and history to show the value of the cold to us as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
Combining the quiet joy of Wintering with the urgency of Life on a Little-Known Planet, Cold Comfort is an exuberant and endlessly curious love letter to the cold. Weiss’s contagious sense of awe and gorgeous descriptions of the natural world will convince even the chilliest among us of the importance and wonder of this natural resource.
Opinie krytyków
“An urgent and fascinating hymn to a cold planet and its hardy inhabitants.”–Katherine May, New York Times bestselling author of Wintering
“Very good but chilling science delivered, suitably defrosted, in an admirably clear, digestible package. I am so grateful for brains and hearts (and lungs) like those of Miranda Weiss, reminding us to put down our diversions and soberly examine the effects of our voracious civilization upon nature’s creation."—Nick Offerman, actor and author of Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
“Winter is the magic time on our planet, when friction disappears and we get to glide across its surface. This fine book captures the charm, and the importance, of the cold--never more than now, as our carbon emissions threaten to banish it.”–Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
“In Cold Comfort, Miranda Weiss celebrates winter as a source of joy, bounty, and enchantment—and warns of its fragility. A gorgeous, and necessary, ode to the life-giving cold.”—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts
"Weiss’s joyful and poetic descriptions of ice and snow highlight the beauty of skiing, ice skating and appreciating all that winter has to offer, but by weaving in the importance of cold throughout our planet’s history, Cold Comfort also makes the urgency of our current climate crisis clear. A must-read for everyone to understand the importance of the role that cold plays in our world."—Jessie Diggins, author of Brave Enough and 4-time Olympic medalist in cross-country skiing
“An eloquent paean to low temperatures...Weiss’s intimate observations and expansive curiosity make the frozen world feel both immediate and indispensable. This is science writing at its finest.”–Publishers Weekly