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All of this is running under the assumption that heat never radiates into space.
It does.
The problem is that with higher CO2 levels, less heat is radiating into space than before. It's a greenhouse effect.
Heat from the sun that enters the atmosphere is going to cause heat regardless of whether the photons hit a solar panel, a tree, or some asphalt. Maybe by painting things white, we can reflect more heat out into space. But even that's going to be less effective with higher CO2 levels.
I mean if heat never radiates into space, then why isn't the earth a volcanic world as it was in the past?