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>>gmays+(OP)
I understand the present concerns, and I try to do my part, but I’m pretty sure the hottest day on earth was a very, very long time ago. ;)

Hopefully, we will get through this one way or another.

>>jschve+tc
Actual article:

> The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries,

It's not talking about "greenhouse Earth". Anyways, for immediate concerns we only need to look at the Meghalayan age.

>>chx+nn
There’s also the time when the surface was molten. The day the moon was created was probably a scorcher :)

That day might be the candidate for the first day earth existed given it gained quite a bit of mass. (Given the theory the earth-moon system was created by the collision of a couple of planetary bodies)