“Global warming caused this ship to sink.”
You say this in jest, but, Global Warming WAS the cause of this tragedy.
In 1816, we had the “Year without a Summer” as Mt Tambora blew it’s top and cooled everything. 1817-1818, when Capt Ross and Lt Parry went sailing looking for the Northwest Passage, they found the path through the Lancaster sound clear almost all the way through to the Beaufort Sea. This led to a number of explorations looking for the Passage.
Franklin’s was one of the many that went, but, also, one of the few that didn’t come back, or, at least get word back as to what happened.
The loss did lead to the final discovery of the passage.
Sir John Franklin led the two ships and 129 men in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.
The global warming from dates you gave in 1845 when his ship was lost? And would that not be global cooling as they were supposedly stuck in ice?