.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Improvement Service, an EU company, announced that in the twelve month to January 31st the globe's temperature level had been, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris agreement, an environment treaty of 2015, focused nations to keep the surge in "international average temp ... well below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" and also seek to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can folks claim that the planet possesses gone beyond one of the Paris landmarks? If it possesses certainly not, what would be actually needed to make such a claim?