China's Bohai Bay 80% Ice-Covered. Where is Global warming ?

February 15, 2010 (LPAC)—As China celebrates its Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), there is new information on the spread of sea ice in North China waters. Remote-sensing data from the National Satellite Ocean Application Service showed that 12,719 square km, or 80 percent, of the Bohai Bay, one of the three comprising the Bohai Sea, had iced up as of January 23. Li Baohui, a State Oceanic Administration (SOA) scholar, said the sea ice was mainly the result of low temperatures and brief intervals between cold fronts.

The worst ice in four decades has caused enormous losses to marine transport, fishing, aquatic breeding, and offshore mining industries in Tianjin Municipality and several provinces located around the water body, according to Beijing Review.

About half of the Bohai Sea, a semi-enclosed inland sea the size of South Carolina, was covered by ice on January 23 as it experienced its worst freeze since 1969. Ice floes stranded ships, disrupted oil drilling and caused economic losses to marine farms, where ice blocked oxygen from reaching captive fish.

For example, Shengli Oilfield, one of China's largest, suffered severe damage by sea ice to its drilling and power-transmission facilities. More than 1,000 wells were affected. The Shandong Province fishery reports that 12,500 acres of shrimp farms in Shandong are not producing, the province's fishing ports are frozen, and more than 4,000 fishing boats are unable to go fishing due to sea ice. One aquaculture company alone suffered $44 million in losses after most of its 6 million abalones died during the freeze.

Lyndon LaRouche has pointed out that it is not only global cooling, but a reinforcing effect that helps bring on ice ages; the sea-covering ice will re-radiate solar radiation that otherwise would be absorbed by the dark waters.

So where is the global warming now ?  The Earth is COOLING !