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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Air conditioners don’t contribute to it being hotter outside, any more than taking a piss off the side of a fishing boat makes ocean levels rise. The increase in temperatures is a function of the increasing proportion of the Earth’s atmosphere of gases that absorb and re-radiate heat energy instead of allowing to pass out into space.