.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Change Solution, an EU agency, revealed that in the year to January 31st the planet's temperature had been actually, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial levels. The Paris arrangement, a climate negotiation of 2015, committed nations to always keep the increase in "international standard temp ... properly below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" and look for to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can folks claim that the planet has outperformed some of the Paris milestones? If it possesses certainly not, what would be actually required to create such an insurance claim?