The earth has a lot of warm places: forest fires, lava floes, iron foundries, the inside of your toaster oven, nuclear reactors, and so forth. But, if we’re just talking about regular old sun-heats-the-earth climate and weather, where on the earth’s surface is hottest?

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Based on the article and research by: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/HottestSpot/printall.php and http://secure.ntsg.umt.edu/publications/2006/MZR06/Mildrexler_et_al_EOS_2006.pdf