Eli5 the sun is always there blasting out heat, why do we have different seasons and why do we have massive heat waves now?
In: Earth Science
Seasons occur because the Earth is tilted on it’s side; as it orbits around the Sun, different hemispheres are tilted towards or away from the Sun, and thus experience more or less direct sunlight.
The cause of the heat waves is not *explicitly* known, but it’s almost certainly due to global warming and destabilization of the climate of the Northern Hemisphere.
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