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Despite the attempt to portray climate as long term weather patterns for the purpose of empirical modeling for the Earth alone , planetary climate is a solar system affair where all planets have a distinct climate due to their inclination. In this respect it is possible to compare planetary climates irrespective of their composition or distance from the Sun however a necessary modification is required in order to create the climate spectrum into which each planet falls.
The spectrum is between 0 Degrees and 90 degrees inclination where the former value represents an Equatorial climate while 90 degrees represents a polar climate with the ecliptic plane offering the base line for determining the spectrum.
Uranus with an inclination of over 82 degrees has a polar climate while Jupiter with a 3 degree inclination has an equatorial climate. The Earth has therefore a largely equatorial climate with a minor but sizable polar component giving moderate swings in surface conditions across large areas of the planet.
I urge modelers to play with different inclinations so they get a feel for the significance of inclination and the surface rotation to the Sun as a function of the orbital motion of a planet. Then people can research climate properly .