Here are two ways that most classroom globes are 'lying' to us and this has nothing to do with flat-Earth arguments. It's actual science.
I will start this piece by assuring you that it is not an argument for a flat earth. Ok, now that I have that out of the way, let's proceed. As I walked into the Geography-Geology building at the University of Georgia earlier this week, the iconic globe in the lobby caught my attention. I snapped the photo while ascending white Georgia marble staircase.
. It is also why the Northern Hemisphere experiences the opposite season from the Southern Hemisphere . However, you may be surprised to learn that unlike that rigidly fixed axis on a globe, the Earth is not always fixed at the same angle. TToday, the Earth's axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun. But this tilt changes. During a cycle that averages about 40,000 years, the tilt of the axis varies between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees.
Unfortunately, people that think in “either/or” terms mistakenly point to natural cycles like this as the “only” driver of our climate system. It’s actually more accurate to think in terms of “and.” Increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing the Earth’s surface, on average, to warm, In recent decades, accelerating warming has caused a climate crisis and disrupted many aspects of the Earth system.
Speaking of Earth, there is another way that globes are"lying." Most people that look at a globe would likely say that it is a perfect sphere.Since the days of ancient mythology, scientists and philosophers have debated the shape of Earth. Since about 500 B.C., the idea that the Earth was a perfect sphere has dominated most scientific thinking, even though the concept of a flat Earth may have persisted in some regions for another millenium.
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