.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Weather Adjustment Company, an EU firm, declared that in the twelve month to January 31st the globe's temperature level had actually been, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris contract, an environment treaty of 2015, dedicated countries to maintain the increase in "worldwide standard temperature ... properly below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" as well as find to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people state that the world has surpassed some of the Paris milestones? If it possesses not, what would be required to create such a claim?