Comment on "Satellites Reveal Contrasting Responses of Regional Climate to the Widespread Greening of Earth"
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Forzieri (Reports, 16 June 2017, p. 1180) used satellite data to show that boreal greening caused regional warming. We show that this positive sensitivity of temperature to the greening can be derived from the positive response of vegetation to boreal warming, which indicates that results from a statistical regression with satellite data should be carefully interpreted.
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