.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Change Solution, an EU agency, declared that in the 1 year to January 31st the planet's temp had actually been actually, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C more than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris contract, a weather treaty of 2015, dedicated countries to always keep the surge in "worldwide standard temp ... effectively listed below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial amounts" and look for to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people say that the world has gone beyond one of the Paris turning points? If it has not, what will be actually required to make such a case?