Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 (vice.com)

dmoberhaus writes: Researchers have found that if Bitcoin is adopted at rates similar to technologies like credit cards, its energy consumption could increase global temperatures by 2C in just 16 years. This is well beyond the limit of catastrophic climate change proposed by the UN. Motherboard spoke to an expert on Bitcoin and energy about the study's implications.

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Bueno! Excellente'

[Brett Buck]

One absurd fantasy pitted against another!

Re:Bueno! Excellente'

[Anonymous Coward]

Man-made warming is not a fantasy. Maybe you've been getting high on Republican propaganda, which is not meant to be taken seriously.

Re:Stop lying

[lgw]

The climate models only work when man-made inputs are included. Without man-made inputs, the climate models are very different (ie: wrong after ~1970).

Sure, but then the climate models were created to show the dangers of man-made inputs, so of course they show that. The guys who make them are fairly smart, after all, they're not going to make a model that shows that no one should care about their field.

Of course human activity has some effect on the climate. But the climate isn't going to be stable no matter what we do - stable just isn't a normal property of the climate on any large time scale. The glaciers come and go every 100k years. I'm just as happy to not have them return this time (and they are 10k years overdue). There would be no Canada left to make fun of, can't have that!