<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><article-header _ngcontent-c10="" _nghost-c11="" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 552px; display: inline-block; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div _ngcontent-c11="" class="metrics-channel" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px;"><metrics _ngcontent-c11="" class="light-text color-body" _nghost-c22="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><span _ngcontent-c22="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Forbes</span><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);" class=""> </span></span><span _ngcontent-c22="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;" class=""><time _ngcontent-c22="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Oct 29, 2018, 12:00pm</time></span></metrics></div><h1 _ngcontent-c11="" class="font-base speakable-headline fs-headline color-body" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.38; position: relative; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Bitcoin Predicted To Be The Nail In The Coffin Of Climate Change</span></h1></article-header><article-body-container _ngcontent-c10="" _nghost-c14="" class="article-body fs-article fs-responsive-text current-article" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; display: block; margin-top: 16px; position: relative; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><tweet-quotes _ngcontent-c14="" _nghost-c28="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><ul _ngcontent-c28="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; list-style: none; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top: 2px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><li _ngcontent-c28="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); list-style: none; position: relative; margin: 0px;" class=""><div _ngcontent-c28="" class="fs-text-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="tweet_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fandreamorris%2F2018%2F10%2F29%2Fbitcoin-predicted-to-be-the-nail-in-the-coffin-of-climate-change%2F&text=Bitcoin%20alone%20could%20push%20global%20temperatures%20over%20the%202%C2%BAC%20catastrophic%20threshold%20by%202034" target="_blank" data-ga-track="Tweet this click" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 40px; line-height: 1.125em; position: relative; display: block;" class="">Bitcoin alone could push global temperatures over the 2ºC catastrophic threshold by 2034</a></span></div></li><li _ngcontent-c28="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); list-style: none; position: relative; margin: 0px;" class=""><div _ngcontent-c28="" class="fs-text-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="tweet_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fandreamorris%2F2018%2F10%2F29%2Fbitcoin-predicted-to-be-the-nail-in-the-coffin-of-climate-change%2F&text=If%20this%20%5Btechnology%5D%20is%20so%20insignificant%20and%20the%20footprint%20is%20so%20big%2C%20can%20you%20imagine%20if%20this%20thing%20were%20to%20take%20off%3F" target="_blank" data-ga-track="Tweet this click" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 40px; line-height: 1.125em; position: relative; display: block;" class="">If this [technology] is so insignificant and the footprint is so big, can you imagine if this thing were to take off?</a></span></div></li></ul></tweet-quotes></article-body-container><div class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/10/29/bitcoin-predicted-to-be-the-nail-in-the-coffin-of-climate-change/#616efae5745e" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/10/29/bitcoin-predicted-to-be-the-nail-in-the-coffin-of-climate-change/#616efae5745e</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Motherboard</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap; font-size: 0.75rem; font-family: "Open Sans", "Trebuchet MS", TazuganeGothic, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Oct 29 2018, 10:02am</span></div><h1 class="hed-xxl article__title m-t-4-m m-b-3-xs m-b-4-m m-t-3-xs" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033</span></h1><div class="short-form-article__header-dek-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 640px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="ad-width odd-not-rendered sponsored-article-article" style="box-sizing: content-box; max-width: 1450px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div class="sponsored-article-article m-b-3-xs m-b-4-m ad-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"></div></div><h2 class="hed-l m-b-5-xs article__dek" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">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</span><span style="font-size: 1.75rem; font-family: CalvertMTBold, Arial, TazuganeGothic, serif;" class="">.</span></h2></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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New approaches ... acknowledge that change is inevitable and sometimes irreversible, and that maintenance of ecosystem services depends in part on novel ecosystems, i.e., species combinations with no analog in the past.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Forest Ecology and Management 360 (2016) 80–96 </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Review and synthesis </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management </b></span></p></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">S.W. Golladay </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">a</span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, K.L. Martin </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">b</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, J.M. Vose </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">b</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, D.N. Wear </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">b</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, A.P. Covich </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">c</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, R.J. Hobbs </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">d</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, K.D. Klepzig </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">e</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, G.E. Likens </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">f</span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">,</span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">g</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, R.J. Naiman </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">h</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, A.W. Shearer </span><span style="vertical-align: 6.5px; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 174);" class="">i </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">a </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">J.W. Jones Ecological Research Center, 3988 Jones Center Dr, Newton, GA 39819, USA<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">b </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">USDA Forest Service, Center for Integrated Forest Science and Synthesis, Research Triangle Park, Campus Box 8008, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">c </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Odum School of Ecology, 140 E Green Str, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">d </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">School of Plant Biology, 35 Stirling Hwy, University of Western Australia (M090), Crawley, WA 6009, Australia<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">e </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 200 WT Weaver Blvd, Asheville, NC 28804, USA</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">f </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Cary Institute of Ecosystem Sciences, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, PO Box AB, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">g </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">h </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington and CENRM, University of Western Australia, 133 Wilson Lane, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA<br class=""></span><span style="vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">i </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">School of Architecture – Center for Sustainable Development, The University of Texas at Austin, 310 Inner Campus Drive, B7500, Austin, TX 78712, USA </span></p><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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