.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Modification Solution, an EU agency, announced that in the one year to January 31st the globe's temperature had actually been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris agreement, a climate treaty of 2015, dedicated countries to maintain the increase in "international average temperature level ... properly listed below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial amounts" and also find to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals point out that the globe has gone beyond one of the Paris breakthroughs? If it has not, what will be required to create such a case?