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How does earths tilt, relative to the ecliptic, affect climate?

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How does earths tilt, relative to the ecliptic, affect climate?

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Seasons are explained by Earth’s orbit and by Earth axis’ tilt. The Earth’s axis is the line joining Earth north and south poles. It’s the axis around which Earth is rotating. This axis is tilted. It is tilted relative to ecliptic. The ecliptic is the plane of the Earth’s orbit’s around the Sun. Technically, the tilt is computed relative to a perpendicular to the ecliptic. The tilt is about 23.5° in any case. The tilt of the Earth does not vary as Earth is orbiting the Sun. Which makes that at some point of the orbit the axis is tilted away from the Sun as at another point it is tilted towards. Two more positions are when the axis, although tilted still, is neutral relative to the Sun. It is these four main positions -tilt away from the Sun, tilt towards the Sun, tilt neutral, which produce the seasons. This is due to the angles at which the rays of the Sun are reaching Earth being different. When Earth northern hemisphere e.g. is tilted away from the Sun, Sun rays come there at a shal

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