Global Climate

The cover shows a cropped image of the warming stripes (seen in full below), as developed by Ed Hawkins (Reading University, UK). Each vertical line shows the global average temperature of a whole year, starting at 1850 on the far left and ending with 2019 on the far right. The underlying data are from the HadCRUT4.6 dataset of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre. To create stripes of other regions and countries visit https://showyourstripes.