[MCN] Bitcoin may be a killer

[Lance Olsen]

Forbes Oct 29, 2018, 12:00pm
Bitcoin Predicted To Be The Nail In The Coffin Of Climate Change
Bitcoin alone could push global temperatures over the 2ºC catastrophic threshold by 2034
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If this [technology] is so insignificant and the footprint is so big, can you imagine if this thing were to take off?
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Motherboard Oct 29 2018, 10:02am
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033

A recent UN climate report said that if global temperatures rose above 1.5 C it could lead to catastrophic climate change. Bitcoin alone could raise global temperatures by 2 C within two decades.





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Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management 

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a J.W. Jones Ecological Research Center, 3988 Jones Center Dr, Newton, GA 39819, USA
b USDA Forest Service, Center for Integrated Forest Science and Synthesis, Research Triangle Park, Campus Box 8008, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA 

c Odum School of Ecology, 140 E Green Str, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
d School of Plant Biology, 35 Stirling Hwy, University of Western Australia (M090), Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
e USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 200 WT Weaver Blvd, Asheville, NC 28804, USA

f Cary Institute of Ecosystem Sciences, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, PO Box AB, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA
g Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
h School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington and CENRM, University of Western Australia, 133 Wilson Lane, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
i School of Architecture – Center for Sustainable Development, The University of Texas at Austin, 310 Inner Campus Drive, B7500, Austin, TX 78712, USA 





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