.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Weather Change Company, an EU organization, announced that in the year to January 31st the planet's temp had been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial levels. The Paris agreement, an environment treaty of 2015, committed countries to keep the rise in "worldwide average temperature level ... well below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial amounts" and also look for to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals state that the planet possesses gone beyond among the Paris turning points? If it possesses certainly not, what would be needed to have to create such a case?