On the Green and Wald formalism
  Backreaction in the cosmological context is a longstanding problem that is
especially important in the present era of precise cosmology. The standard
model of a homogeneous background plus density perturbations is most probably
oversimplified and is expected to fail to fully account for the near-future
observations of sub-percent precision. From a theoretical point of view, the
problem of backreaction is very complicated and deserves careful examination.
Recently, Green and Wald claimed in a series of papers to have developed a
formalism to properly describe the influence of density inhomogeneities on
average properties of the Universe, i.e., the backreaction effect. A brief
discussion of this framework is presented, focussing on its drawbacks and on
misconceptions that have arisen during the "backreaction debate".
