I am becoming more convinced we live on a flat plane, but can't resolve the desertification of parts of the earth, i.e. if it were a globe the sun is closer at the equator??
Can anyone enlighten me how it ties in with flat earth?
The relative distance of the various areas of the earth from the sun is quite negligible.
The average distance of the sun from the earth is close to 150 million km and the radius of the earth is about 6,400 km, so the variation is only 0.004%.
On the Globe, the difference in temperatures is not caused by variations in the distance to the sun, but by the change in the elevation angle of the sun.
For example, when the sun is over the equator it is directly overhead, but at 60° latitude north or south the sun is 60° from the vertical, so
one square metre of solar radiation is now spread over
two square metres of the earth's surface.
A bigger concern for those that think that the earth is flat is that on the "Ice-Wall map" the circumference of the Tropic of Capricorn is about 1.7 times the circumference of the Tropic of Cancer.
This means that the sun would have to travel at
1.7 x the speed in the southern summer compared to its speed in the northern summer and
on top of that the area of the southern hemisphere is
3 x the area of the northern hemisphere.
Somehow the sun has to heat three times the area in the southern summer, but the actual measured solar radiation is about
7% higher in the southern midsummer compared to the northern midsummer.
Problems, problems, problems. Don't worry, Tom Bishop has a solution in the "BiPolar map", with its weird continent shapes and massively bendy sunlight.