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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (cdn.bsky.app)

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

citation for claim that it's the longest-dated climate dataset?

[–] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

It's not the longest climate dataset, but it may be the longest directly recorded by humans. All of these types of data are climate proxies (alternate indicators we can use to gain information about historic climates), the longest of which are ice core measurements.