Climate and the Planets

In his Tetrabiblios, Ptolemy ascribed the Sun and the planets closest to it as being of a hot or warm nature and those farthest from the Sun as being of a cool or cold nature. This is true on a global as well as solar system scale. Not only is the center of our planet the warmest in comparison to its shell, but so is its latitudinal center in comparison to its latitudinal north and south. If we spread the planets in their Ptolematic order from the center outwards, we get the above diagram. Exactly how many latitudinal degrees each planet covers is debatable, so I have equalized the amounts into fifteen-degree segments.

The most striking thing about the diagram is of course the Sun and Moon occupying(interchangeably) the hot equatorial regions or lattitudes of the planet, and Saturn(and its modern counterpart, Uranus -if one incorporates the modern planets) occupying the polar regions. There is no question as to the Sun's "hot" nature and to Saturn's very "cold" nature, so they are perfectly matched to their respective latitudes. The Moon is not really hot but when blended with the Sun the result is warm. The other planets vary between these two extremes and also make more sense when blended with their modern counterparts. Jupiter, for example, is not really cold, but becomes cooler when Neptune is blended in. Mars with Pluto, Venus with Earth, and Mercury with Vulcan.

Of course the real reason the equatorial regions are so hot is because of the Earth's inner sun which magnetically attracts to it a greater concentration of solar radiation as is shown in the diagram below. Being only some 600 to 700 miles in diameter, and located at the Earth's center, it most directly affects the planet's equatorial regions in terms of heat, and most especially the day side(facing the Sun).

Theoretically, any part of the globe can receive this concentration depending on the planet's axial tilt. Our atmosphere helps diffuse this concentration so that we are not roasted by it, and a water canopy will diffuse or disperse it even more so that the temperature(and light) of the entire planet can be equal throughout. The Earth's shell not ony diffuses, but filters, the sun's deadly rays so that Middle Earth(inside Earth's shell) enjoys a heathy and shadowless form of light. Inner concave Earth receives most of its light via the polar openings and through the planet's inner central sun. This inner sun distributes outer solar light and heat in a safe and heathy fashion.

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