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When the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carringtondecided to poll the world’s top climate scientists, he had no idea how many of them would want to participate.
“I was amazed at the flood of responses that came back,” he says Hannah Moore.
With the help of Julian Ganz, the Guardian’s research manager, they contacted every lead author or review editor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports since 2018. Of the 843 scientists contacted, 380 responded.
“We would ask a few simple questions, but we also had a box at the end that said, ‘Would you like to make another comment?’ And oh boy, they really did,” says Carrington.
Reading the responses, he could feel this “overwhelming sense of disappointment, despair and unhappiness at being ignored for so many years and the difficulty they have in living with this information.”
Illustration: Tamara Uribe/Guardian Design
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