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Temperatures reached into the high 20s in large parts of Siberia today Windy.com

Temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius reported above Arctic Circle

Temperatures soared to 10 degrees Celsius above average in Siberia last month.

UNUSUALLY WARM CONDITIONS in the Arctic Circle have continued this month with temperatures reportedly hitting 30 degrees Celsius in parts of northern Russia.

BBC Weather reported the temperature today at Nizhnyaya Pesha, an area of Russia about 1,300km north of Moscow.

It follows a recent heatwave in the region, with temperatures soared to 10 degrees Celsius above average in Siberia last month, when the world experienced its warmest May on record.

Large swathes of Siberia have been unusually warm for several months running, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

“The really large anomalies started during January, and since then this signal has been quite persistent,” C3S senior scientist Freja Vamborg said last week.

Temperatures reached close to 10C above the 1981-to-2010 average over parts of the Ob and Yenisei rivers, which have seen record-early break-up of ice, C3S said.

The collapse of a reservoir some 800 km further north at the end of May saw 21,000 tonnes of diesel fuel pollute a river near the Arctic city of Norilsk, which has been linked by Russian officials to melting permafrost.

Earth’s average surface temperature for the 12 months to May 2020 was reported to be close to 1.3C above pre-industrial levels, the benchmark by which global warming is often measured.

The 2015 Paris Agreement saw nearly 200 countries pledge to stop the temperature rising above 2 degrees Celsius, and to 1.5 degrees if possible.

The heatwave across parts of Siberia and Alaska will cause particular alarm in regions that were engulfed by huge forest fires last year fuelled by record heat.

Globally, May was 0.63 Celsius warmer than the average May from 1981 to 2010, with above average temperatures across parts of Alaska, Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Antarctica.

The last five years have been the hottest on record, as has been the last decade.

In the Arctic as a whole, average temperatures have risen by more than two degrees Celsius since the mid-19th century, twice the global average.

A warming Arctic has also accelerated melting of Greenland’s kilometres-thick ice sheet, resulting in a net loss of 600 billion tonnes of ice mass for the year – accounting for about 40% of total sea level rise in 2019.

The permafrost in Russian and Canadian forests contains as much as 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide – around 40 times current annual emissions.

Current pledges to cut emissions put Earth on a path of several degrees warming by the end of the century.

Contains reporting from - © AFP 2020

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:06 PM

    Hey Journal, for those of us who won’t be in a position to see it straight away, please; no spoilers. Like many I’ve waited 32 years to catch up with Luke, Han, Leia & Chewie. We won’t mention the prequels…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:16 PM

    I wonder one day will Disney and JJ Abrams be able to de-Jar Jar the prequels and release a special edition where Anakin isn’t so whingey…

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    Mute Chris Judge
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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    “please; no spoilers”

    You’re probably safer just avoiding the internet until you see it.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:31 PM

    But, avoiding the internet is impossible. If you use Google chrome, there’s a few extensions you can use that will block any possible spoilers.

    This will block all star wars related stuff.
    http://wap.engadget.com/2015/12/15/star-wars-spoiler-blocker-chrome/

    Or there’s another where you can change what to block, so useful for everything and not just Star Wars:
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unspoiler/oookgbbhgojdebhnmkmhgfagoiknifgi

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:48 PM

    Jar Jar Binks could actually have been an interesting character… rather than just a very racist stereotype:
    http://www.cracked.com/video_19728_how-internet-fixed-star-wars-prequels.html

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:31 PM

    Luke wakes up in the shower and realised the last 40 years was a dream?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:55 PM

    FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE JEDIS ARE EVIL!!! Worst line ever. Great light sabre fight though.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:13 PM

    Hopefully no spoilers will get out,I still haven’t gotten over people spoiling Titanic by saying the ship sank in the end

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:59 PM

    The butler did it.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:32 PM

    It didn’t sink, J.P. Morgan sold it as scrap and he insured it well for himself too…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 8:47 PM

    That is a joke by the way…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:08 PM

    Any Spoilers……I will find you and I will kill you….

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:20 PM

    The bad guy is Luke’s son

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    Wrong movie, and they take his wife

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:26 PM

    He dies in the end

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:29 PM

    Kermit the frog and says to Luke, you are my father?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 11:56 AM

    It is unbelievable how good it is…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    Live long and prosper

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:10 PM

    I was one of the lucky few to attend a private screening and it was EPIC!
    I didn’t expect Han Solo to die of a chronic case of Aldebron Piles though.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:13 PM

    The last scene is amazing…. Who would have thought Jar Jar Binks was really Luke’s father ???

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:28 PM

    passes the bechdel test.

    thejournal never fails to get a liberal feminist dig in.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:24 PM

    Did Luke pass his repeat Jedi exams yet?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:33 PM

    He passed something, it had to be tested, lol.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Perhaps getting reviews from crazy excited fans happy just to be there is a bad idea for expectations. I think a critical view might be better from a journalism perspective.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    How dare you bring logic and reason to the Journal.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:20 PM

    It’s sad that people watch movies testing if they pass that Bechdel shit

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:23 PM

    I haven’t seen any of the films. Are they any good?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:41 PM

    No

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:03 PM

    I’m fully prepared for lots of poetic rhyming with the original trilogy, fan service and general enjoyment followed by an uneasy sense of disappointment. If it exceeds this then I’ll admit that I’ve misjudged JJ.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 3:00 PM

    Should I watch any of the previous ones for this new one to make sense? I’d like to see it but I want to understand it. I haven’t seen any of the movies.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 3:29 PM

    @ignoreland he could have been and a lot less annoying too if he wasn’t a cgi caricature. What was Lucas thinking. I really don’t know

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:27 PM

    In a toilet far far away, use the force Luke…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:26 PM

    I loved it when they blew off his legs, lol.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:36 PM

    Anyone else think some scenes resembled Skellig Mikel?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:57 PM

    That was the most whimsical jape of the season old bean.

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