... the Third World? Unlike the industrialized world, largely located in the northern, temperate portion of our planet, the Third World is significantly equatorial and peri-equatorial.1 These ... on an axis tilted 23 ½ degrees off the perpendicular to its orbital plane around the sun. As a consequence of the latter, the northern and then the southern equatorial and peri-equatorial ... equator. Consequently, they move north and south geographically as the earth orbits the sun. Air in the lower portion of these cells, warmed by the sun, takes up moisture from the bodies of water...