Exactly. You're saying that there's an extra transfer of energy to the surface next to the solar input, only this second, separate transfer is from a source that's actually cooler than the surface. But it doesn't matter, it still "heats" the surface some more. See, this is what I'm talking about. Your view of how the world works is a warped version of reality. Any non-absolute-zero body will have radiance that can be absorbed by a warmer body. That absorption event increases the energy of the absorbing body by definition. Is the result a colder body making the warmer body have a higher temperature than it 