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2024-04-09 10:34:40 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 18DADB6587E90F4ACF28494A07D6AB65A33A38B9832006D18C6DCC62D0608D55
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Climate records did not begin 8 years ago. Comprehensive discussion with good references of why global climate records are considered to have begun in 1880: https://qz.com/1055629/why-does-all-our-climate-data-start-in-1880 However local records go back hundreds of years. This discusses 273,000 records being digitised. https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/8/1551/2012/cp-8-1551-2012.html
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