.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Weather Change Solution, an EU firm, declared that in the 12 months to January 31st the planet's temperature had been actually, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris arrangement, a climate negotiation of 2015, committed countries to always keep the rise in "international standard temperature ... effectively listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial degrees" as well as seek to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people say that the globe has surpassed among the Paris turning points? If it has not, what would be actually needed to make such an insurance claim?