.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Improvement Solution, an EU agency, announced that in the 1 year to January 31st the planet's temperature had been actually, on average, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial levels. The Paris arrangement, a weather treaty of 2015, fully commited countries to keep the increase in "global standard temperature level ... effectively listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial degrees" and also look for to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals say that the planet possesses gone beyond one of the Paris turning points? If it possesses certainly not, what would certainly be actually needed to have to create such a case?