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Floating Computers Keep an Eye on the Oceans
mightysquirrel81 writes "This fascinating picture story shows the tech behind the global Argo progamme set up to monitor the world's oceans. Using 3,000 floating computers and a network of satellites, researchers measure sea temperature and ocean currents to predict climate change."
Sure!
Those dispersed devices are called "humans". And those actions are sometimes described as "stop taking planes", "don't buy this SUV", "put a jumper instead of heating your house to summer temperatures during winter", "don't eat too much meat", "move your ass and stop waiting for a technological miracle" or "understand that American/European way of life actually is negotiable".
Anyway, you cannot produce "cool", except if you find a way to release excess heat outside of the atmosphere (e.g.: an open fridge actually heats our planet, but putting the condenser on the moon would cool it down). Global dimming has already been proposed as a "solution" to global warming : spreading so many small particles in the atmosphere that a part of solar radiation would be directly reflected. But this simply cannot work because particles end up falling down after a while (hours/days/months, whatever) while global warming will have long-term effects (centuries at least). To actually counterpart global warming effect, you would have to keep increasing local pollution.
Coming back to your example, you obviously can use wind's work to increase internal energy of the atmosphere, but I doubt it would have any significant influence compared to the 10**17W that earth receives from the sun. It's much more "efficient" to keep on releasing CO2/CH4/N2O/SF6 into the atmosphere to increase greenhouse effect.