.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Adjustment Service, an EU firm, declared that in the one year to January 31st the world's temp had actually been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris contract, a weather negotiation of 2015, committed countries to maintain the surge in "worldwide standard temperature level ... well below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" as well as seek to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals state that the globe has gone beyond one of the Paris landmarks? If it has not, what would be required to create such a case?