I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.
“Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.”
“Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.”