The only thing that “cools” the planet is radiation primarily in the infrared into the cold blackness of space, since there is no medium for convection or conduction. The hydrologic cycle just moves water around based on thermal gradients, but the above mechanism is the only way the earth really “cools”.
But it rained here today after a long drought...and the earth is much cooler.
Is it possible that some scientists are over-theorizing this stuff?