Earth 90 Degree Tilt 2024 Earth. The earth has lost enough groundwater to thirsty humans to measurably tilt the planet’s axis of rotation. But if we tilted earth's axis even more, to 90 degrees, the us would get sunlight 24/7, around the clock, for months on end.

During a cycle that averages about 40,000 years, the tilt of the axis varies between. Studies of earth’s paleoclimate, based on evidence from ice cores, ocean sediments, and other geological records, have revealed that the planet’s axial tilt has ranged.