Fish Kill

There' s a news story here about a fish kill off the west coast Taiwan islands caused by a "cold front." They said the cold front caused the water to become cold enough to kill the fish but this didn't make sense to me. Water doesn't get that cold from the air that quickly and it hasn't even been freezing at sea level. Here's the false story on BBC. It just doesn't make sense to me. I thought it had to be human activity related.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7260000/newsid_7260200/7260230.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1


Then yesterday the real story - it was weather-related. In the past month or so there was a lot of record-breaking snow in mainland China - especially during the Lunar New Year. The weather warmed a bit and all that record snow started melting and pouring into the Taiwan Straits sending massive quantities of near freezing water into the Taiwan Straits causing the cold water to overwhelm and kill the fish. I hope some scientists somewhere are examining this phenomena as it could give insights global warming impacts in the future.