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Published online 11 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031208-13
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Scientists contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions
Meeting delegate chides conference-hopping climate experts.
Many of the 10,000 scientists attending this week's annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) study climate change. Collecting them all in San Francisco undoubtedly increases our understanding of global warming, but it releases more than 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, pointed out one of this year's delegates.
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