.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Weather Change Solution, an EU firm, announced that in the 1 year to January 31st the planet's temperature level had actually been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris agreement, a weather treaty of 2015, committed countries to always keep the rise in "global average temperature ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" and also seek to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals claim that the globe possesses gone beyond one of the Paris milestones? If it possesses not, what would certainly be required to make such a claim?