.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Change Solution, an EU organization, declared that in the year to January 31st the planet's temperature level had been, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial levels. The Paris agreement, a temperature treaty of 2015, committed countries to always keep the growth in "worldwide average temperature level ... properly below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial levels" and find to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people say that the globe has outperformed one of the Paris turning points? If it possesses not, what would be actually needed to have to make such an insurance claim?