This repository contains code in R to replicate the following graphic:
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Title: I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.
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Author(s): Zeke Hausfather
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Date: Oct 13, 2023
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From: New York Times
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URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/climate-change-excessive-heat-2023.html
The source of the data is Berkeley Earth (https://berkeleyearth.org). To be more precise, the data set corresponds to the Global Temperature Data
https://berkeleyearth.org/data/
The data set of interest is the time series of monthly average temperatures available in the following text file:
https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt
A local copy is stored in the folder data/ of this github repository.