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Beautiful but worrying 🌍 (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The way earth rotate around the sun is not a perfect circle, but more like an ellipse, that plus the earth rotational axis makes the summers and winters of the global north and south don't correspond exactly. This is why there's a difference of ~4 Celsius between average January vs average July.

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