When the Guardian’s surroundings editor, Damian Carrington, determined to survey the world’s prime local weather scientists, he had no thought what number of of them would need to take part.
“I used to be astonished by the flood of responses that got here again,” he tells Hannah Moore.
With the assistance of Julian Ganz, the Guardian’s analysis supervisor, they approached each contactable lead writer or evaluate editor of Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change reviews since 2018. Of the 843 scientists contacted, 380 replied.
“We’d ask a number of easy questions, however we additionally had a area on the finish that mentioned: ‘Do you need to make any additional remark?’ And oh boy, they actually did,” Carrington says.
Studying the responses, he might really feel this “overwhelming feeling of frustration and despair and unhappiness at being ignored for thus a few years, and the problem they’re having of dwelling with this info”.
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