.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Adjustment Solution, an EU agency, revealed that in the 1 year to January 31st the planet's temperature level had been actually, on average, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris contract, a weather negotiation of 2015, committed countries to maintain the growth in "international average temperature ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" and look for to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people point out that the planet possesses outperformed one of the Paris breakthroughs? If it possesses not, what would be actually needed to create such a case?