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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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[โ€“] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do floods correlate well with the climate there, or are they affected by something else, too? If they are not much affected, then that could be a dataset indeed

[โ€“] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Indeed they could, any core sample of the earth could, and long has, been a record of climatic conditions.