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   Helen Czerski (helenczerski@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 18:10:37 JST Helen Czerski

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   I have interviewed many hundreds of scientists for the BBC, Fully Charged and others over many years, and I can tell you that however nice, capable and well-intentioned they are, the ones working for companies ALWAYS have their boss and the company’s investors at the back of their minds. It’s never the same sort of conversation. So what happens when we, the public, need expertise and realise that we don’t have access to it any more, even though we paid for it to develop? #climate #OpenAccess

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     Helen Czerski (helenczerski@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 18:10:39 JST Helen Czerski

     A current worry: The only people with existing deep expertise in things like how the atmosphere/ocean/geosphere work are academics, who are ace at giving impartial evidence-based advice. But as lots of climate “solutions” companies spring up, these academics are consulting with them & in some cases leaving academia to work for them (often much better pay & working conditions) & are then limited in what they can tell the rest of us. So the public source of open unbiased expertise is at risk.

     Charles Muller repeated this.