Secret Bitcoin farm, record breaking CO2 levels and ‘period plastic’

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Sky News published this video item, entitled “Secret Bitcoin farm, record breaking CO2 levels and ‘period plastic'” – below is their description.

On today’s Daily Climate Show we follow our Asia correspondent Tom Cheshire as he gets exclusive access to a bitcoin mining farm in China. Creating bitcoin can use a huge amount of energy with powerful computers programmed to try to generate them.

We also hear from a climate scientist about record breaking CO2 levels and meet the woman campaigning against ‘period plastic’.

Latest climate stories: https://trib.al/dAJOwBl

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