The 1845 Franklin expedition through the Northwest Passage ended with everybody dead, after getting trapped by ice at several locations.
NOVA | Arctic Passage | Tracing the Routes (printable) | PBS
The ice at 3, 4, 5 on Franklin’s Route is 1.5 to 2.5 meters thick. They would have been trapped by the ice again this year.
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And temperatures are below freezing.
However, the Northwest Passage was open in 1904.
And by 1958, there was even less ice.
The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times
Yet the climate lies continue endlessly……
Read more at Real Climate Science
Great idea Amber Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio all along with some idiots from GREENPEACE should follow the same course Franklin took aboard one of those Greenpeace Fossil Fuels Ships and get Trapped in the Ice lets see them live on rations for a while
Why hasn’t Al Gore gone on an excellent adventure through the “ice free ‘ Arctic he
predicted with a high degree of certainty ? This would be the time to go and recreate the Franklin expedition .