{"id":352,"date":"2006-09-19T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=352"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:41:23","slug":"sachs-wsj-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/09\/sachs-wsj-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachs’ WSJ Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeffery Sachs of the Columbia Earth Institute has an excellent commentary<\/a> in Scientific American this month on the disconnect between the Wall Street Journal editorial<\/a> board and their own reporters (and the rest of the world) when it comes to climate change. He challenges them to truly follow their interest in an “open-minded search for scientific knowledge” by meeting with the “world’s leading climate scientists and to include in that meeting any climate-skeptic scientists that that the Journal editorial board would like to invite”. <\/p>\n

RealClimate heartily endorses such an approach and, while we leave it to others to judge who the ‘world leading’ authorities are, we’d certaintly be willing to chip in if asked. To those who would decry this as a waste of time, we would point to The Economist<\/a> who recently produced a very sensible special on global warming and proposed a number of economically viable ways to tackle it, despite having been reflexively denialist <\/a> not that many years ago. If the Economist can rise to the challenge, maybe there is hope for the Wall Street Journal….<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeffery Sachs of the Columbia Earth Institute has an excellent commentary in Scientific American this month on the disconnect between the Wall Street Journal editorial board and their own reporters (and the rest of the world) when it comes to climate change. He challenges them to truly follow their interest in an “open-minded search for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-climate-science","category-rc-forum","category-reporting-on-climate","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t