China: Cold freezes sea-farmers' income

Record low temperatures and the worst sea ice in 30 years have caused huge losses to sea-farmers and fishermen as well as chaos on the streets of Shandong and Liaoning provinces.

About 40 percent of the Bohai Sea's surface is already frozen. Sea-farmers said they expected nothing to be left by spring.
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"We can do nothing about the large area covered with thick ice this year, because nobody can break it."
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Ding Zhixi, an official of the Shandong provincial sea and fishing authority, said sea ice has affected 125,500 hectares of sea-farms. Sixteen fishing ports were blocked by ice, and nearly 4,000 fishing boats remain frozen in the sea.

[January 15, 2010]: East China fishery hit by worst sea ice in 40 yrs

The worst sea ice in 40 years appeared began early January along the coasts of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea as cold fronts pushed temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius, according to the National Marine Forecasting Station on Sunday.
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Sea ice had affected fisheries of Shandong's Qinghai, Yantai, Weihai port cities, as stocks died and boats were trapped in port.

The direct economic losses of the fishing industry in Weihai City was estimated at 420 million yuan (US$61 million), according to the city's ocean and fishery bureau.

In Yantai City, 200 boats were trapped in Haimiao port, Laizhou Bay, for more than a month.

Global warming: Shall we review the bidding?

It's been one disaster a week for a couple of months now. I said six months ago that it was time to bring some grownups onto the team representing the activist agenda for global warming. I said last week that I didn't think Pachauri would last until June 30th of this year. Looking around the warming blogs--like Real Climate, Climate Progress and others of that type--there seems to be no comprehension of the hole they are digging for themselves. Nor do reports in the major media reflect serious concern on the part of politicians who have championed the fight for so long.

Is it possible that they think nothing's wrong? That they don't need to do anything? It would be an absurdist end to this story to watch the fight against global warming end with a whimper...