.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Improvement Solution, an EU agency, declared that in the 12 months to January 31st the globe's temp had been actually, on average, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial levels. The Paris arrangement, an environment treaty of 2015, committed nations to always keep the growth in "worldwide standard temp ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial degrees" and seek to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals say that the world has gone beyond some of the Paris turning points? If it has certainly not, what would certainly be actually needed to create such a case?