'Hours on a footnote’: Scientists felt joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report

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'Hours on a footnote’: Scientists felt joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report
By Emma Farge and Andrea Januta, Jake Spring
 
 

    Summary

    234 scientists spent years working on report for free
    Co-chair compares efforts to a "marathon"
    Virtual decision-making posed new challenges

GENEVA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - After spending hundreds of hours in virtual meetings to complete this week's major U.N. climate report, scientists Piers Forster and Joeri Rogelj celebrated in a way their peers could not: by hugging.

Britain-based Forster had been weary of the isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and invited his co-author to work alongside him in his Harrogate kitchen as they worked with other scientists around the world to thrash out the final version of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/hours-footnote-scientists-felt-joy-frustration-making-un-climate-report-2021-08-10/

[DefiantMassRINO]

What was the carbon footprint required to produce the report?

Wouldn't those resources have been better spent on advancing pollutant-trapping technologies, and micro and nano grid technologies to make electrical grids more efficient?