Stripe has a carbon removal division: https://stripe.com/climate

I'm not sure about Stripe in particular but many financial institutions are tracking the top 10 global risks published by the World Economic Forum. The number one 10 year risk is "Failure to mitigate climate change". In total 6 of the top 10 are directly related to climate change and 3 are indirectly related e.g "Large scale involuntary migration" and "Erosion of social cohesion"

Large corporations who want to make decisions based on a sound understanding of the world around them will often employ skilled individuals who can give them contextualized information used to make business decisions.

In Stripe's case, they have a product called Climate that allows customers to redirect a portion of their revenue to fund carbon removal efforts.

If they did not have a climate scientist on staff to vet projects that would be a mistake.

Because some people can notice trends and plan for the future

(While some people will deny the problem exists until they're literally underwater)

> Why is there a climate scientist working for a payments processor?

Without any explanatory details, this seems like a non-sequitur.

Or are you making a joke? Is this like the surrealist painters and bathtub one?

Stripe vowed to be the world’s first carbon negative company some years ago.

Stop noticing things!