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Some perspective.

@jaykuo
Alt text: A social media post of a normalized line chart stretching from the years 812 to 2026, showing trends in the blooming dates of cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan. The dates have trended sooner steadily since the mid-1800s. The poster comments, "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."

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Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@jaykuo
Couldn't really fit a fuller description of the chart in only one post; I'd rather have the second sentence of my alt text be:

The trend in dates is shown to have varied sooner and later in waves before, but has trended sooner steadily since the mid-1800s to exceed any previous peak, in defiance of the old pattern.