If temperatures are getting hotter, and more people start using air conditioners more, which continue to make their external environmental temperatures hotter, is their any realistic hope of the overall temperatures coming back down?

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If temperatures are getting hotter, and more people start using air conditioners more, which continue to make their external environmental temperatures hotter, is their any realistic hope of the overall temperatures coming back down?

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There is hope, there always has been. We just need to collectively decide to take action regardless of the short term economics, which has been hamstringing efforts for decades.

But we know, broadly, what needs to be done: Lower greenhouse emissions and increase how reflective the Earth is. Generally, we focus on the first part, since it only takes a little greenhouse gas to have a huge effect (like far less than 1% of the atmosphere). The second part can be acheived by cloud seeding, reforestation, sustainable city development, etc. But this part is overlooked because there is no short term financial incentives, and it has a much smaller effect unless we decide to engineer a nuclear winter.