.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Modification Company, an EU firm, announced that in the year to January 31st the globe's temperature had actually been, on average, 1.52 u00b0 C higher than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris arrangement, a weather treaty of 2015, fully commited nations to maintain the rise in "international average temperature level ... well below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial degrees" and seek to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can folks say that the world has outperformed some of the Paris landmarks? If it has not, what would certainly be needed to have to create such a case?