.ON FEBRUARY 8TH the Copernicus Temperature Improvement Company, an EU company, announced that in the 12 months to January 31st the world’s temp had been actually, typically, 1.52 u00b0 C greater than pre-industrial amounts. The Paris arrangement, an environment treaty of 2015, committed countries to keep the increase in “global average temperature level … effectively below 2 u00b0 C above pre-industrial amounts” and find to confine it to 1.5 u00b0 C.
Can folks say that the planet has gone beyond one of the Paris landmarks? If it has certainly not, what will be needed to make such a claim?