• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The correct answer is neither the distance to the sun nor the distribution of the populagion, though the latter is related to the answer. It is because more land is on the northern hemisphere than on the southern hemisphere. This also holds when weigthed with the suns angle of incidence across the seasons.
    Land changes temperature more quickly, so the oscillation over the year from it is larger than from water, dominating it here.