Does the Earth accumulate the energy it receives from the Sun, or does it reflect all of it back into space?

Question

I understand that the sun gives energy primarily in the form of sunlight, which contains various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. If the earth absorbs some of the energy, does the earth’s “total energy” accumulate?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

So the earth loses as much energy as it absorbs from the sun, it’s balanced. Some energy is stored in bonds between matter, like plants and us, lots is lost as heat and radiation. 

If the earth heald onto more energy than it released, things would get warmer until it got to a point where the energy leaving earth equaled the energy coming in.