sukhmel comments on Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset

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)

submitted 7 months ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

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

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