A greening Earth fueled by increased CO2 correlates w/ “an increasing carbon sink on land since the 1980s”. A game changer?

CO2 is making Earth greener—for now
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-greenerfor-now/
[April 26, 2016]

2/“A quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25...

3/“While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for

4/“energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events...

Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization

5/“explains 70% of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. “The second most important driver is nitrogen, at 9%. So we see what an outsized role CO2 plays in this process.”...

6/“The extent of the greening over the past 35 years “has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and carbon in the climate system,” said lead author Zaichun Zhu, a researcher from Peking University, China, who did the first half of this study with Myneni as a

7/“visiting scholar at Boston University.

Every year, about half of the 10 billion tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere from human activities remains temporarily stored, in about equal parts, in the oceans and plants. “While our study did not address the connection between

8/“greening and carbon storage in plants, other studies have reported an increasing carbon sink on land since the 1980s, which is entirely consistent w/ the idea of a greening Earth,” said co-author Shilong Piao of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking

9/“University.”

This conclusion needs to be restated:

A GREENING EARTH DIRECTLY CORRELATES TO AN INCREASING CARBON SINK IN LAND SINCE THE 1980S

This could be the game changer we’ve been looking for!!

10/Trump already wants to plant a trillion trees right? He must be aware of the science.

Tree planting -> Greener Earth -> more O2 generated -> the land becomes a greater carbon SINK...

If the science bears out, America can remain energy independent long term, and burning

11/fossil fuels will be mitigated by more trees/forest “breathing” in the CO2 that we add, yet w/ the net result being a Greener Earth is one where the LAND becomes a GREATER carbon sink.

12/We & climate scientists around the world should collaborate w/ Chinese researchers Zaichun Zhu & Shilong Piao to determine the affects Making Earth Greener will have on the oceans. Will the oceans absorb LESS CO? More? Will the oceans be healthier in a greener Earth?