.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Modification Service, an EU organization, revealed that in the year to January 31st the planet's temperature level had been actually, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris deal, a temperature negotiation of 2015, committed nations to keep the rise in "international average temperature level ... effectively listed below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial amounts" and also find to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people point out that the world has gone beyond one of the Paris landmarks? If it has not, what would be actually needed to make such a case?