Can we invent ourselves out of climate change? Ben Franklin thought so.
The winter of 1740-1741 was miserable. Boston Harbor froze over. So did the Venice Lagoon. Crops died and famine reigned. Up to a fifth of Ireland's population might have died, a greater toll than for the 19th-century famine called the Great Hunger.
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