.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Environment Modification Solution, an EU company, revealed that in the year to January 31st the world's temp had been, usually, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris deal, a climate negotiation of 2015, focused nations to keep the rise in "worldwide standard temperature level ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C over pre-industrial levels" as well as seek to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can people claim that the planet has exceeded one of the Paris turning points? If it has not, what would be actually needed to make such a case?