.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Adjustment Solution, an EU agency, revealed that in the one year to January 31st the world's temp had actually been, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris contract, a temperature treaty of 2015, committed nations to always keep the increase in "global average temp ... well below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial amounts" as well as find to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals claim that the world has outperformed one of the Paris breakthroughs? If it possesses not, what will be actually needed to make such a case?