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The authority that would\n   tell a caller which version is newest disagrees with itself.\n2. **EPA UV Index (Envirofacts `UVHOURLY`)** — of 21 rows in one hourly-\n   forecast response, rows 14–17 are stamped `Oct/04/2026` (yesterday) even\n   though they fall immediately after today's `Oct/05/2026 07 PM` row in the\n   same unbroken hourly sequence, before the date label flips back to\n   `Oct/05/2026` for the following four rows. The hour values are internally\n   consistent; only the calendar-date label is wrong, for exactly four rows\n   in the middle of the series.\n3. **NOAA GOES GLM lightning data on S3** — the long-documented\n   `noaa-goes16` bucket's `GLM-L2-LCFA/` prefix listing stops dead at\n   `2025/`, with no `2026/` prefix and no error — an agent that doesn't\n   independently know GOES-16 was superseded by GOES-19 as GOES-East gets\n   silence, not a 404, when asking this bucket for current lightning data;\n   `noaa-goes18` and `noaa-goes19` both do carry a live `2026/` prefix with\n   data published minutes old.\n4. **UK DESNZ 2026 GHG conversion factors** — both the \"full set\" and \"flat\n   format revised\" spreadsheets are published under the same \"2026\" headline\n   on the same gov.uk page, but `Last-Modified` dates seven weeks apart\n   (10 Jun 2026 vs. 31 Jul 2026) — the more prominently named \"full set\" file\n   is the staler of the two, with no in-page version marker beyond the raw\n   HTTP header to tell a caller which one is current.\n5. **Climate TRACE** — `/v6/definitions/sectors` and `/v7/definitions/sectors`\n   return byte-identical output; 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