Jeffrey D. Sachs is not comfortable with the editorial board of Wall Street’s Journal as he writes in the Scientific American October 2006 issue.

Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain cool: the air-conditioned offices of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

As New York City wilted beneath them, they sat insouciant and comfortable, hurling editorials of stunning misdirection at their readers, continuing their irresponsible drumbeat that global warming is junk science.

Now I have nothing against the Wall Street Journal. It is an excellent paper, whose science column and news reporting have accurately and carefully carried the story of global climate change.

Even the corporate advertisements that surround the editorial page tell of BP’s commitments to renewable energy and General Electric’s commitments to environmentally sound technologies. The editorial page sits in its own redoubt, separated from the reportersÂ… and from the truth. …

… Many of the world’s leading climate scientists are prepared to meet with the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, and to include in that meeting any climate-skeptic scientists that the Journal editorial board would like to invite.

The board owes it to the rest of us to make the effort to their own “open-minded search for scientific knowledge.” If only for the sake of their own sweltering hometown, it’s time they accept the invitation.

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director the Earth Institute at Columbia University in Scientific American