But it doesn’t stay that way.
The orbit of the earth alters periodically, slowly, over thousands of years, to where the opposite is true for a looooong time until it comes back to the beginning of the cycle............
True. Also true is that WINTER for us is SUMMER for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
The point is that whether closer or further away, the temp of the Earth doesn't change, or the change is so small it is negligible.