Most of environmental propaganda we see on mainstream media, including Bitcoin mining influence is a pure fiction, but I guess you can pump anything if you give it enough attention. You pay few journalists and corrupt scientist who hate bitcoin and you will get perfect mixture that fits into modern green narrative agenda for brave new world. Imagine something like Bitcoin mining that uses only 0.05% of the total energy consumption getting so much attention and bad press, it means they really don't like it, and it has nothing to do with environment.
I fully agree with this. Right now, there are many scientists whose opinions can be bought for anything and they are not anymore following the science or maybe they got their own definition and understanding of science. And we have the mainstream media that can easily be swayed to act as the outlets for garbage...they stopped to do some credible digging a long time ago since it can take time and so they just repeat what is feed on them. Now, that credible information are already on the table, these people are so silent they will surely not cover this up as the narrative they are convinced with can be broken and they can be exposed as liars.