@Doug_Bostrom
I'm calling shenanigans on this statement: "Increasing urban vegetation can reduce albedo, which increases incoming energy fluxes" because my observation shows it's not the case; where there is tall greenery, the pavement gets more shade during more hours of the day...also rooftops.

There's a claim that energy gets absorbed by the greenery, which is true of course, but that absorption doesn't necessarily translate one-for-one into heat because the plant uses that to conduct living operations, converting energy to sugar and operation of vascular movement.

Observation reveals that there is an insulative property of the green canopy, but that's what causes the microclimate--maintaining a divide between what's hot and what's not. Hot air can go only one way, and that's up, and as it rises upward, it cools. Double cooling benefit IMHO.