.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Modification Solution, an EU company, announced that in the one year to January 31st the globe's temp had been, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris contract, a weather negotiation of 2015, dedicated nations to maintain the rise in "worldwide standard temperature ... well listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" and also look for to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people say that the planet has surpassed some of the Paris milestones? If it has certainly not, what would be actually required to create such a case?