Climate science

• Earth closest to Sun on January 4

  Pam Knox

  January 3, 2015

  

  EarthSky magazine noted today that tonight the Earth will reach its closest point in its orbit to the sun, right around 1:30 am EST on the 4th.  You can read about it here. Many people think that winter is caused by how far our planet is from the sun, but really the seasons are caused…

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