Thank you for this. Some words apparently got garbled. As you pointed out, in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the North Pole that is tilted most toward the Sun at the June solstice, but the Earth (and its poles) is definitely not at its perihelion, which is in January. Warmer temperatures of the summer season are due largely to the more direct angle of the Sun’s rays reaching Earth (in June in the Northern Hemisphere) rather than to how close the Earth is to the Sun along its orbit (closest in January). We have updated the text.
Thank you for this. Some words apparently got garbled. As you pointed out, in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the North Pole that is tilted most toward the Sun at the June solstice, but the Earth (and its poles) is definitely not at its perihelion, which is in January. Warmer temperatures of the summer season are due largely to the more direct angle of the Sun’s rays reaching Earth (in June in the Northern Hemisphere) rather than to how close the Earth is to the Sun along its orbit (closest in January). We have updated the text.