Women’s experiences as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors, have been explored showing how gender, race, nationality, etc. increase barriers to participate in the production of climate science even for the best scientists. Recently, the IPCC Gender Task Force, conducted another survey exploring barriers to participation in the IPCC that included men as well as women. The Gender Task Force released a report on gendered barriers mostly focusing on quantitative responses. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the fourteen open-ended questions in the survey. In addition to qualitative analysis, storytelling and the concept of feminist objectivity are useful approaches to convey the complicated web of responses of over 500 scientists about their experiences participating in the IPCC and in climate science more broadly. Gender, race and nationality continue to be barriers. I stress the connection between exclusions of underrepresented scientists in the IPCC with the persistent western belief that science is an objective and impartial practice. The paper brings attention to exclusionary structures that prevent participation in the IPCC and in science more broadly, but also provides stories of how these are resisted. These stories go beyond recognizing people as disadvantaged toward addressing the intersecting structures that exclude people from participating in science. As climate science becomes more diverse, and evidence points toward the benefit of diversity for superior science, understanding barriers and opportunities for scientists participating in multidisciplinary and international reports such as the IPCC becomes increasingly important. The stories provide a theoretical and methodological catalyst for international science institutions who seek to increase the influence and presence of underrepresented groups in science and produce superior science.

女性作为政府间气候变化专门委员会 (IPCC) 作者的经历已经得到探索，表明性别、种族、国籍等如何增加了参与气候科学生产的障碍，即使对于最优秀的科学家也是如此。最近，IPCC 性别特别工作组进行了另一项调查，探讨参与 IPCC 的障碍，其中包括男性和女性。性别工作组发布了一份关于性别障碍的报告，主要侧重于定量反应。本文对调查中的 14 个开放式问题进行了定性分析。除了定性分析之外，讲故事和女权主义客观性的概念是传达 500 多名科学家关于他们更广泛地参与 IPCC 和气候科学的经历的复杂反应网络的有用方法。性别、种族和国籍仍然是障碍。我强调在 IPCC 中排除代表性不足的科学家与西方坚持科学是客观和公正的实践之间的联系。该论文引起了人们对阻止参与 IPCC 和更广泛科学的排他性结构的关注，但也提供了如何抵制这些结构的故事。这些故事不仅仅是承认人们在解决将人们排除在参与科学之外的交叉结构方面处于不利地位。随着气候科学变得更加多样化，并且证据表明多样性对卓越科学的益处，参与 IPCC 等多学科和国际报告的科学家的理解障碍和机会变得越来越重要。