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Mostly false: Bitcoin’s “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels”

Fact-check, Mostly falseBy Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, DEJuly 6, 2021

Elon Musk criticises Bitcoin for its enormous energy consumption of fossil fuels. Without further ado, he drops it as a payment option at Tesla, whereupon the Bitcoin price falls rapidly. Musk is mostly right about the greenhouse gas emissions involved in Bitcoin mining, but he is mostly wrong about the trend. Creating and destroying values…

Mostly true: UK is halfway to carbon neutrality goal

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, BEJune 11, 2021

At the Climate Summit organised by the United States in April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that the United Kingdom is “halfway to net-zero”. It is correct that the UK is halfway on their net-zero policy. However, the claim is only mostly true, as research shows the scenario is not as optimistic as the…

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Uncheckable: “We’re living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NLJune 12, 2020

On the 6th of May 2020, the BBC published a story with the headline “Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash”.  The article goes on to state that “We’re living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.” This claim is uncheckable.

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