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What is the angle of the earth in relation to its poles as it circles the sun?

Seems improbable that the earth is on a 90 degree tilt pole to pole as it circles the sun. Therefore does the magnetic sun-flares change this tilt angle from time to time and does that account for climate change?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    No, the magnetic sun-flares does not change the tilt angle from time to time. Consider the angle is 23.5 degrees, and the earth also wobbles about its axis every 26,000 years in what is called axial precession. What affects tilt is gravitation - the interplay of the gravitational effects of the moon on the earth. And as the moon pulls away from earth, at the 1 inch per year that it is now, the tilt of the earth may possibly change, and this will most definitely affect the global climate, but you're talking over a span of billions of years. In the immediate future (the next few centuries), the tilt is not the cause. There is the weakening of the magnetic field as the magnetic poles reverse, but that, too, is a process of a few thousand years, so that also is not an immediate cause of climate change. Today, it is a confluence of things: unnatural processes, courtesy of man, natural processes, courtesy of nature, the warming of the Sun itself, volcanic eruptions, and the natural releases of greenhouse gasses that have been occurring. Tilt, while it can affect climate change drastically, does not account for what we see today.

  • 8 years ago

    What do you mean by "angle of the Earth"? An angle needs two lines (or a line and a plane), and your question has one line: pole to pole. What's the other line (or plane)?

    The angle between the pole-pole line and the plane of the orbit, is 23.439 degrees. This angle changes *very* slowly, currently decreasing about 0.013 degrees per century. The change has nothing to do with magnetic sun-flares, or magnetic anything, or climate changes.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The angle of the Earth in relation to its poles is perfectly zero. The angle of the Earth's poles in relation to the ecliptic is 23° 26' 21" and slowly decreasing. It is such a slow process that it's effects on climate would never be noticeable to us even historically. That it does have an effect is well known.

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  • Irv S
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The angle of the earths axis to the plane of it's orbit is about 23.5 Deg.

    This does change (precess), slowly, but solar flares have nothing to do with that..

  • Josh
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Not sure why you think it's improbable.... If your driving a car and you slam on the brakes...does not your body larch forward until your seat belt stops you from getting hurt..or worse.

    Second we are not a Gas Giant planet (like Neptune).

    Mind if I ask what country your from.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    23° 26' 21"

  • 8 years ago

    Don't know

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