"Chris" wrote in message
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this just ridiculous?

I heard that the earth get warmer the further the sun is from the earth
(summer) and colder the closer it gets. So if the sun fell on the earth
we
would freeze to death?

Not quite. What controls the seasons more than the distance from the Sun is
the axial tilt.

During winter, the hemisphere in question is tilted away from the sun,
resulting in shorter days and longer nights, hence less heating and more
cooling.

However, in fact, the Earth's closest approach to the Sun is during the
Northern winter. But it's the tilt that really matters.