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Effect Of Chicken On A Bad Rotisserie Effect

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The Chicken-on-a-Bad-Rotisserie Effect

Besides the Earth rotating around its tilted axis, it is also revolving around the Sun. Here, again, we see what seems like a mistake in nature. The orbit of the Earth around the Sun is not a regular circle. It is an ellipse. The orbit is elongated like a stretched-out elastic band. This means that at some times of the year, the Earth is closer to the Sun than at other times. Physicists can explain why this happens; all we need to know is that it happens.
The Earth is closest to the Sun around June & December and furthest around March & September. The advantage of this elongated orbit is that, at some point, the Earth is too close to the Sun and more energy is absorbed from the Sun. Then, at …show more content…

The major convection currents that the rising heat would cause would lead to severe weather conditions.
The hot air would rise to very high altitudes and fan out north and south. Cool air would sweep toward the Equator from the Poles. This cycle would have caused the polar ice caps to melt much sooner. There would probably be no ice at the North or South Poles by now.
In the no-axis-tilt scenario, rainfall would probably only fall between the 15° to 40° latitudes. It would be at these latitudes that the warm Equatorial air would mingle with the cool, polar air to cause rain. It would be difficult to sustain conditions where snow could be created.
The 23° axis tilt makes our current conditions possible. However, the fact that deserts form along the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn suggests the instability of our climactic condition, and is probably unsustainable into perpetuity.
The presence of vast quantities of water on Earth is both a saving grace and a curse. It is a saving grace in that there will be evaporation as long as the Sun shines. The evaporation will most likely cause rainfall at some points on land. The rainfall will continue to sustain life on

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