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The answer includes Benjamin Franklin, Mutiny on the Bounty and centuries of records.

If early forecasting aimed to avert tragedy and economic loss, the troves of data it produced are used today to monitor a new sort of disaster, one that was scarcely foreseeable by 19th-century meteorologists but that now constitutes the single most significant fact about the planet’s environment. 

Read this beautifully presented article from The Washington Post here.