Again, you're completely wrong. According to the EPA,

> "Urban heat islands" occur when cities replace natural land cover with dense concentrations of pavement, buildings, and other surfaces that absorb and retain heat.

> Trees, green roofs, and　vegetation can help reduce urban heat island effects by shading building surfaces, deflecting radiation from the sun, and releasing moisture into the atmosphere.

Reflecting radiation improves the urban heat island effect, rather than making it worse.

Absorption of heat is what makes it worse, aka what we are doing right now.

It literally says what you asked for.

> Another way of stating this is that it takes less energy to cool down an interior space by one degree than to heat it up by one degree. This is the case, because (in layman’s terms) it takes less energy to transfer heat (air conditioners) than to generate heat (furnaces and boilers).[…]

The heat always needs to go back outside to create a comfortable living environment, now we use AC to do that which exacerbates the problem through the power used to run the AC.

The more AC you use, the hotter it gets and the more AC you use.

At least bouncing it back into the environment doesn't add heat.

>Heating is way more efficient than cooling,

While the rest of your reply makes sense, this is just completely wrong. Cooling is way more efficient than heating, by a difference of 3.5x.