.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Modification Service, an EU company, announced that in the year to January 31st the globe's temp had been actually, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris deal, an environment treaty of 2015, fully commited countries to maintain the increase in "global standard temperature level ... properly listed below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" and look for to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people point out that the planet has outperformed one of the Paris turning points? If it possesses certainly not, what would be required to make such a case?