What’s not to love about this (lack of) winter’s weather? Plenty, if you’re, say, an oil company or fur coat producer. Or, for that matter, a winter swimmer. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club, an 80-person group of New Yorkers who get their kicks doing laps in hypothermia-inducing seawater, is considering canceling this winter’s swimming season for the first time since the group was founded 104 years ago, due to a distinct lack of “winter.” As club president Louis Scarcella told the Times, with such tepid temperatures—near Brooklyn, the Atlantic was 48 degrees on New Year’s Day—“It’s not the extreme sport that we love.” Mmm. I bet. On Saturday, in a record-breaking 72 degree thaw, eight members of the group staged a silent protest on the beach in Brooklyn “against global warming,” according to the Times, even though the Weather Service is blaming the unusual weather on a “mild air mass.” Nice try. We all know Al Gore is behind this. Somebody go check on last month’s sales of An Inconveinent Truth.