The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy is something we must be able to see. We get a lot of effects of a larger change, and pick the one that in a partial way, in a particular light, can be painted as positive.
There are a lot of "greener" things, the article talks only about a few of them, and some particular consequences. For example, greening in northern regions because losing permafrost is not positive, and lowering albedo (compared with not so dark colours) also increases warming. It is not something even across the whole planet or land regions, it may or not lead to sustainable CO2 level reductions, and when depleted water sources falls down, it could lead to more emissions.
It should be part of a bigger and complex process that is happening, it might slow down some bad trends in some particular regions, but the whole picture matters, and the trends of the big problem seem to not be affected, or at least seem to keep going strong(er) in the same bad direction.
But actually people predicted this positive effect of warming long ago. I believe the specific prediction was that global food production would increase as warming + co2 enrichment increased production in politically and economically stable and responsible nations (at the expense of... Less stable, less responsible nations). You can argue if the aggregate measure of production is more or less important than the distribution, but that prediction was made nonetheless.
Probably not what you’re looking for but it always makes me think of Jeffrey Jones’ “Wholly Holy” (1972), the penultimate story in this 1983 collection: https://www.zipcomic.com/ravens-and-rainbows-issue-full (not sure how to deep link to the exact page)
Also check out “Explored” and “Spirit of ‘76” before it, just because they’re cool :)
There are a lot of "greener" things, the article talks only about a few of them, and some particular consequences. For example, greening in northern regions because losing permafrost is not positive, and lowering albedo (compared with not so dark colours) also increases warming. It is not something even across the whole planet or land regions, it may or not lead to sustainable CO2 level reductions, and when depleted water sources falls down, it could lead to more emissions.
It should be part of a bigger and complex process that is happening, it might slow down some bad trends in some particular regions, but the whole picture matters, and the trends of the big problem seem to not be affected, or at least seem to keep going strong(er) in the same bad direction.