.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Modification Service, an EU firm, declared that in the 12 months to January 31st the planet's temperature had been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris arrangement, a climate treaty of 2015, committed countries to always keep the rise in "global average temp ... well listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" and find to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals point out that the globe has exceeded one of the Paris breakthroughs? If it possesses not, what would be actually needed to create such a claim?