Thursday, September 30, 2010

Alarmist Seth Borenstein suggests that a place that gets 24 degrees hotter than Earth is still "juuuust right"

Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? - SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON -- Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.
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"This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between - in the land of constant sunrise - it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Answers.com - What is the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth
The highest natural temperature was recorded on September 13, 1922, in El Azizia, Libya (near the Sahara desert), the temperature reached 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 Celsius).

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