I doubt Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading meant the climate stripes to be a #knitting pattern, but it is totally feasible to use them as such.

Just choose the nearest city on their website (https://showyourstripes.info/c) and extend the lines of the vertical axis, so you get 8 sections of 0.5⁰. Then find some yarn in matching colours.

Due to all the colour changes, the scarf still took some 3 hours to make it on a #circularknittingmachine .