Which process has the greater effect on the thermal distributions & equilibrium of the atmosphere?

Is it the reduction in net radiation into space of absorbed & remitted solar energy increasingly trapped by human activity generated greenhouse gases? Or is it the changes in the water cycle (precip patterns, polar caps, mt snowpacks, ocean temps, etc)which moves the thermal energies around the atmosphere?

This is an oversimplified science Q that only a person trained in the understanding of the thermodynamics of the atmosphere can truly answer. My own expertise in heat transfer phenomena permits me to pose this Q. This is not a mickey-mouse algebra problem except perhaps for the late Feynman.

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Order of magnitude calculations would suffice to A the issue here.