.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Improvement Solution, an EU organization, declared that in the one year to January 31st the planet's temperature had been, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial levels. The Paris agreement, a climate treaty of 2015, fully commited countries to maintain the rise in "worldwide standard temperature ... well listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial amounts" and seek to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals state that the world possesses exceeded one of the Paris turning points? If it possesses not, what would be needed to have to create such a claim?