.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Change Solution, an EU agency, declared that in the 12 months to January 31st the globe's temp had actually been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris deal, a temperature negotiation of 2015, committed countries to keep the surge in "global average temperature ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial amounts" as well as find to limit it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can folks say that the planet has outperformed some of the Paris landmarks? If it has certainly not, what would be needed to make such a claim?