Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Worrisome Warming Watch


In case the Warm-mongering doesn't seem ridiculous enough, here's an interesting piece from Reuters. (The picture, from an unrelated incident, is a look at yesterday's balmy conditions in Kentucky).

A cruise ship carrying nearly 400 people has been stuck in thick ice in the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Canada for over a day, but passengers are nonetheless having a "festive" time, the company that owns the vessel said Tuesday.

The ship, CTMA-Vacancier, chartered by a group traveling from Montreal to the Gaspe Peninsula for a cross-country skiing trip to celebrate the 475th anniversary of the region's settlement, is now inching through the heavy ice, said Leonard Arsenault, a spokesman for MTMA Group.

A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that was already in the area tried to assist the ship, but was also having difficulty getting through the thick ice, Arsenault said.


AP Photo/Ed Reinke

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