It would be hard to concoct a statement more disqualifying of somebody who presumes to write about matters of science than this:

Climate change science is a wondrous intellectual activity. Great scientific minds have learned over the course of many decades to “read” the Earth’s history, in order to understand how the climate system works.

Related: Is There Any Problem Jeffrey Sachs Can’t Solve?

H/T Mike B.

These profits stink of corporationey corporations.

Bret Stephens writes in his WSJ column, “To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid.”

Economist Jeffrey Sachs proposes to spend between $10 and $15 billion dollars on a five-year development program. “The obvious way for Washington to cover this new funding,” he writes, “is by introducing special taxes on Wall Street bonuses.”

I know Wall Street is a magically self-replenishing pot of gold, but if for any reason that does not work out, Mike B. has a better idea:

The obvious way for Washington to cover this funding is by taxing leftist economic professors an additional 50% of their salary as penitence for all of the damage they have done.