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Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years.
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John Bistline
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
10:23 AM · Apr 1, 2026
@bistline.bsky.social
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
10:23 AM · Apr 1, 2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
— John Bistline (@bistline.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T14:23:07.012Z