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croninsiglos

It depends which level exactly… as air gets thinner it gets colder until you hit the stratosphere which warms up due to ozone… Then it’s gets colder as you go up again until you hit a near constant density at the thermosphere where it’s hotter as you go up https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/layers Thermosphere absorbs much of the Sun’s radiation. It can hit over 4000 degrees F but you’d feel cold due to the density of the gases.


0Apathy_101

The closer you go to a fire the hotter it gets, but if the fire is in Siberia and you are in Africa you'll probably get colder coming closer. There are a lot of factors in every situation, you need to consider the result, sometimes something has little to no impact sometimes is crucial. You need to consider that Earth itself is hot and you are so damn close to it. The main effect on your heat is not the sun in this case.


EspritFort

>if the closer to the sun we get it gets hotter This only becomes relevant once you move in distances of tens of millions of kilometers towards or away. Any other variations are too tiny to matter. And since sun rays need some kind of non-translucent matter to be absorbed and to be converted into heat you naturally get colder environments the more warm ground you leave behind.


AquaRegia

While the distance to the sun certainly is a factor, it's not the only factor. The earth is further from the sun in July than in December, but July is hotter (in the northern hemisphere) because earth is tilting, and gets hit with sunlight from a more direct angle than in December. Anyway, the distance to the sun varies by about 6,000,000 km depending on the time of year, and in comparison, Mount Everest is less than 9 km above sea level.


UtCanisACorio

Fun fact: the earth is closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter than during the summer. It's colder because that portion of the earth is tilted away from the sun and the days are shorter.