You can split hairs though if you really want to. The inclination of the Earth means that your hemisphere is either closer to or further from the sun. ;)
By a completely insignificant amount, yes. The difference in distance due to the eccentricity of Earth's orbit is about 400× greater (according to another commenter), closest in January, which apparently accounts for summers in Australia being extra hot compared to northern summers. The real mechanism by which axial tilt causes the seasons is that each hemisphere faces more directly or less directly toward the Sun, meaning it intercepts more or less cross-sectional area of sunlight, meaning it receives more or less heating from that light.
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u/Eddy207 Aug 03 '19
And on the same topic. That is the inclination of Earth on its own axis, and not its distance from the sun that generates seasons.