Does man's construction (development) which avoids rainwater into soil add to our climate change?

Question

if you take a large piece of vacant land. (undeveloped). The stormwater soaks into the earth.

Many years later development on that site wold mean hardened surfaces (houses and paving)

Stormwater is now not soaking into the ground but directed elsewhere.

DOES THIS ADD TO GLOBAL WARMING???

Answer 1

In a word yes

,we are changing water producing and water and heat absorbing forests,

for heat reflecting ,water repellent --concrete and tar

Deforestation on mountain slopes that i know of in Mexico and Asia has resulted in floods lower down ,because the forests that used to slow down and absorb the water (about 60% of all rainfall) had gone

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Answer 2

I'm not sure how it would make the global climate to change, but it with too much paving of our big cities it would change them into a different kind of desert. The only places in MN that are like that our the major downtown areas. All other areas have alot of grass and trees surrounding them that rainwater can still absorb into the ground. The only time it doesn't nicely absorb like that is during major rainstorms, where the rain is falling so fast that the earth gets saturated and on some occasions the storm sewers can't even keep up with it.

That happened one time in Hopkins (a suburb of Minneapolis just after we moved into a house there in 1987.) Unfortunately we also left a tiny window in the basement open so our basement flooded and ruined a lot of books we had down there. One bookshelf had been directly under that small window so those books were completely destroyed, but the books I had still in boxes I was able to saves some of the hard cover ones, but my Year Books and paperbacks novels were damaged beyond repair.

Sadly all that water also went down the sewer drain in the laundry room.

When I see pictures of Venice, Rome and othe major cities that appear to be all pavement I wonder what the builders back then were thinking. You need to keep a balance of nature and structures to keep your cities from becoming deserts.

I learned that the Sahara desert used to be grassland that was overgrazed. We need to learn from these mistakes to become better stewards of the earth. We also need to stop worrying about something we can't change and start concentrating on things we can influence. Like preserving our forests, finding ways to reclaim deserts, rebuilding parts of Venice and cities like it, so they have a better balance of land and buildings, migrate populations away from rainforests so we can protect them. These are the things we should be doing, but instead we are starting to implement taxes to stop Anthropogenic Global Warming. Huh? To me that's insane, especially since I know the US government wastes a huge amount of tax revenue already. I know you all are saying they're taxing corporations that (Supposedly) are the biggest polluters, but these taxes will increase the amount these corporations charge for their products.

The next thing they'll do is start increasing the taxes they have on gasoline, which will drive or econonmy even closer to a major recession.

So to me it's sad that the AGW believers won't awknowledge these facts. They seem to believe more government control is the answer when it's not, since I see more coming from the private sector when it comes to change than from the government sector.

Stepping off my soapbox now.