For example, the physics of burning fuels to generate electricity, then used to power conventional air-conditioning that blows heated air on your neighbor - who returns even hotter air at you - is absurd. Passive air-conditioning has existed since cave dwellers, and still exists for even insects.

This is a really interesting one I haven't heard before! Thanks for the head scratcher, Rick

Rick, the heat from your air conditioner that actually warms your neighbor's house is an infinitesimal fraction of that which is dissipated into the atmosphere, and all of that is an infinitesimal fraction of the energy from the sun that strikes the Earth each day.

All energy from the Sun is radiated or reflected out to space except for .58 w/m^2 - the Earth's energy imbalance. Everyone could stop generating CO2 tomorrow - it wouldn't matter, because our CO2 blanket is still absorbing heat.

Unfortunately, the Earth will be at least as warm as it is now for tens of thousands of years. The best we can do going forward is to keep it from accelerating.

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_16/