Thursday, March 04, 2010

Another Global Warming (tm) Problem: A Lot More Ice

Passenger ships stuck in ice off Sweden

Thirty to 40 ships -- including several passenger ships -- were stuck Thursday in ice off the coast of Sweden, said a spokesman for the Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The area of the Baltic Sea worst hit by the ice were the waters bounded by mainland Sweden, the Stockholm archipelago and the Finnish island of Aland, said Tommy Gardebring, press officer with the Swedish Maritime Administration.

Several passenger vessels from Viking Line were stuck, he said. One of them had been freed.

"It has been a lot colder than normal in the southern parts of the Baltic sea, but in the north all is normal with normal levels of ice," Gardebring said. "However, in the worst-affected areas, the ice breakers that normally operate haven't been able to cope with the ice, which is why we are sending additional ice breakers."

I think we could all do with some Spring soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, its cold somewhere in the world. Must mean global warming isn't real. Really?

Rich Horton said...

Yeah, yeah, yeah...and Hurricane Katrina was caused by people driving SUV's.

Payback is a bitch, isn't it?