.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Improvement Company, an EU agency, revealed that in the twelve month to January 31st the world's temp had been actually, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial levels. The Paris agreement, a weather negotiation of 2015, dedicated nations to keep the rise in "global average temperature level ... properly below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" and also look for to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals claim that the globe has gone beyond one of the Paris turning points? If it has not, what will be needed to have to make such a case?