.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Improvement Service, an EU agency, announced that in the 1 year to January 31st the globe's temperature had actually been, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial levels. The Paris arrangement, an environment treaty of 2015, dedicated nations to always keep the surge in "international standard temperature level ... well listed below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial amounts" and find to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals point out that the planet possesses surpassed one of the Paris turning points? If it possesses certainly not, what would be required to create such a case?