.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Weather Adjustment Solution, an EU agency, introduced that in the one year to January 31st the globe's temperature level had been actually, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial levels. The Paris contract, a climate negotiation of 2015, committed countries to always keep the rise in "global average temperature level ... effectively listed below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial degrees" and look for to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people say that the globe has gone beyond one of the Paris breakthroughs? If it has certainly not, what would be needed to have to make such a case?