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Ridiculous Harbin Ice Festival Officially Open

In December, we were a bit worried that the Harbin Ice Festival would fall victim to global warming and be a bit smaller of a spectacle. How little faith we have in China: This year's 25th anniversary event even features an enormous Disney Land replica to go along with various snow-centric competitions and rides.

In addition to ice slides, mouse ear-shaped igloos, swims in a frigid river and skiing, fireworks light up the snow sculptures and ice pagodas that should be on view for the next month, as long as the winter weather holds. More than 800,000 visitors are expected.

As for those worries about global warming hurting the frost, it seems Harbin's still a few tons of CO2 short of a crisis: Wednesday's forecast high is 16 degrees, dropping to minus 6 tomorrow night.

Related Stories:
· China Builds Icey Disneyland [BBC]
· Ice Santa 1, Global Warming 0 [Jaunted]

[Photo: China.org.cn]