.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an EU company, announced that in the one year to January 31st the world's temperature had been, generally, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial degrees. The Paris agreement, a climate treaty of 2015, fully commited nations to maintain the surge in "global standard temperature ... effectively below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial amounts" as well as seek to restrict it to 1.5 u00b0 C. Can individuals say that the globe has gone beyond some of the Paris breakthroughs? If it has certainly not, what will be needed to have to create such an insurance claim?