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Benjamin Franklin was a pioneer in the area of weather forecasting and meteorology. You can just picture him on the Weather Channel with his glasses peering into the oncoming storm like Stephanie Abrams or facing off with Jim Cantore in a snowball fight. He did have theories of climate change because of an extremely brutal winter he experienced. Maybe Ben Franklin was wrong: A volcanic eruption, climate fluctuations and the frigid winter of 1783-84 If he knew about the bones of the cave hyena, whose existence was known during Franklin's lifetime but which were stretched like taffy to fit into some theories or threaded through an eyelet to discount others, he might have had some interesting conclusions about climate change. Cave hyena | Ask.com Encyclopedia
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Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . Weather Wise | PBS
The discovery and description of the Gulf Stream was another
hunch that Benjamin Franklin turned into reality.
Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . Weather Wise | PBShttp://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/his.../franklin.html He had many opportunities to observe the weather and the ocean in his many travels while a diplomat. These Atlantic Ocean crossings allowed him to surmise that the Gulf Stream was no
babble of a brook but a mighty force which would help ships travel much faster if they used its pull. He and members of his family--cousin Timothy Folger, a Nantucket sea captain, and grandnephew Jonathan Williams, Jr-- shared in his interest in the Gulf Stream. He and Williams conducted various experiments to measure the temperature of the sea water at various depths to get a better fix on the extent of the Gulf Stream at different depths like at
thirty-five fathoms. I am sure that he had some ideas though that he found too far-fetched to put down on paper and took those with him to his
grave.
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