Melt

As nice as it was to be able to go outside in short sleeves today, it was hard to appreciate it when it seems so wrong. In Boston, flowers that shouldn't be open until April are blooming in January. Ski resorts are laying off staff. It's even worse for polar bears.

Members of the Polar Bear Club will soon be joining their Arctic cousins on the endangered species list, mutual casualties of global warming. Today in New York City "the Polar Bears held a moment of silence, turned their backs on the Atlantic and headed toward the boardwalk, a protest, albeit an underdressed one, against global warming."

It's hard to be a winter daredevil when it's 72 degrees out.