Please cite the proper statistics. Missing ships/ total global shipping distance a year seems proper.

What seems logical, increasing transportation (it is happening in the last decade), increasing war preparation and pirate activities, migration via the Mediterranean Sea, or uneducated skippers has impact on the number of missing ships.

What can be connected to climate change is the African migration via the Mediterranean Sea and potentially new shipping routes close to the North Pole.

I have never heard about the mentioned phenomenon (sudden rise in the number of missing ships), please refer to an article.

Seafaring is a dangerous job, with ships lost every year-most of the time wreckage can be found, bodies recovered, and courses retraced. But sjome ships just up and disappear, never to be heard from again. Sometimes, a little bit or piece from the ship may be found, but often there’s nothing at all.

Robert Istvan stole my thunder, so to speak. First, what are the actual statistics on lost ships, and most importantly, how do they compare with the number of ships at sea, for any given time interval. My wild guess is, climate change has a negligible effect on these statistics. I would investigate more closely the other factors, as Robert says.

I fully agree with Albert Manfredi that the " climate change has a negligible effect" on the lost-ships statistics .

I also strongly believe the climate change which is happening now and is known by the term of "global warming" is a temporary phenomenon and the contribution of humankind activities in the climate change is rather small . It well may be a wave-like climate behavior - and the situation that we face at present is only a rise on a warming wave crest which - (it is unknown, however, when?) will be replaced by cold.

I have no idea - how the cold-wave will affect the lost-ships statistics.

Why do you think the climate change is mostly referred to as global warming and not GLOBAL COLDING? I see it as a deliberate distraction to favor the emission of CO2 as the major cause of the climate change.