Global Warming Accelerating

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

Source

• Title: Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?

• Author(s): Raymong Zhong and Nadia Popovich

• Date: Dec. 26, 2023

• From: New York Times

• URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/climate/global-warming-accelerating.html

• PDF: Earth-Was-Due-for-Another-Year-of-Record-Warmth-NYT.pdf

Data

The source of the data is NOAA Global Time Series

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/time-series

Time series 1850 - 2024 available in 3 formats: CSV, JSON, and XML. We decided to keep it simple and work with the CSV file:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/time-series/globe/tavg/land_ocean/1/0/1850-2024/data.csv

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