.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Modification Service, an EU organization, declared that in the one year to January 31st the world's temperature had been, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris deal, a weather negotiation of 2015, fully commited countries to keep the rise in "global standard temp ... well listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial degrees" and also look for to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can folks claim that the world possesses surpassed among the Paris turning points? If it possesses not, what will be actually required to make such an insurance claim?