Climate Change Excessive Heat, part 1

This repository contains code in R to replicate the following graphic:

Source

• Title: I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something
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• Author(s): Zeke Hausfather

• Date: Oct 13, 2023

• From: New York Times

• URL:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/climate-change-excessive-heat-2023.html

• PDF:
  Climate-Change-Excessive-Heat-NYT.pdf

Data

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 annual average
temperatures available in the following text file:

https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_summary.txt

A local copy is stored in the folder data/ of this github repository.