Bill nye says our change in seasons is largely due to the fact that the directness of the sunlight hitting a given place changes due to the earths tilt and position in its orbit.
Why does the directness of light create more heat (hitting at equator for example), while glancing light rays (hitting antarctica) produce less heat?
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They don’t. It is that glancing light is more spread out, so while the amount of heat is the same it is spread over a larger surface. If the surface is facing directly towards the sun, it will appear to be wider from the sun’s perspective, and so it will gather more sunlight despite not actually being any bigger. This makes it gather more heat, too.
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