Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms posted a tongue-in-cheek video and a written statement defending itself after The New York Times published a story about the "enormous carbon pollution" and high electricity costs created by the mining industry.

In a tongue-in-cheek response video posted on Twitter, a Riot official dressed in a safety gear walks around a semi-grassy area, measuring the low level of CO2 and noting the plants around him consuming. "Rockdale has some of the freshest air I've ever breathed," the person, who appears to be Riot's head of research Pierre Rochard, says. He then goes inside the mining facility and measures an even lower level of CO2 within the largest bitcoin mining facility in the U.S.

"The science is conclusive," the bearded man representing Riot said in the video. "The data shows Bitcoin mining does not emit any CO2."