--- title: "7 Scientific Debate Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Scientific Debate quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Scientific Debate sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/naomi-oreskes-16659_global-warming_robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wr_359945.jpg" --- > [“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-oreskes/robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wrote-a-report-questioning-the/) [Naomi Oreskes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-oreskes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/naomi-oreskes-16659_global-warming_robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wr_359945.jpg) > [I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-delingpole/i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-on-about-the-fact-that/) [James Delingpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-delingpole/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/james-delingpole-52252_art_i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-o_376687.jpg) > [“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-oreskes/while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposing-opinions-makes-sense-in-a/) [Naomi Oreskes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-oreskes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/naomi-oreskes-16659_political-system_while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposin_497418.jpg) > [I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-bastardi/i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-cause-confusion-and-i-think/) [Joe Bastardi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-bastardi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/joe-bastardi-44683_angel_i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-c_1682516.jpg) > [ \[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed\] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-bondi/science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-fact-is-an-emotion-loaded-word/) [Hermann Bondi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-bondi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/hermann-bondi-28727_accounts_science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-f_2622278.jpg) > [There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over-what-is-happening-of-course/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/bill-mckibben-1057_climate_there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over_3089794.jpg) > [...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over-there-is-no-more-debate-we/) [Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-gore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/al-gore-609_arizona_the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over_3159543.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scientific-debate/#itemlist", "name": "Scientific Debate Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House to brief the Bush administration. One member of the Cabinet Affairs Office said of the report: “Everyone has read it. Everyone takes it seriously.”16 It wasn’t just the Bush administration that took these claims seriously; the mass media did, too. Respected media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and many others repeated these claims as if they were a “side” in a scientific debate. Then the claims were repeated again and again and again—as in an echo chamber—by a wide range of people involved in public debate, from bloggers to members of the U.S. Senate, and even by the president and the vice president of the United States. In all of this, journalists and the public never understood that these were not scientific debates—taking place in the halls of science among active scientific researchers—but misinformation, part of a larger pattern that began with tobacco.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Naomi Oreskes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-oreskes/robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wrote-a-report-questioning-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/naomi-oreskes-16659_global-warming_robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wr_359945.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/naomi-oreskes-16659_global-warming_robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wr_359945.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/naomi-oreskes-16659_global-warming_robert-jastrow-and-william-nierenberg-wr_359945.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They…” — Naomi Oreskes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually that's our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist - social or natural sciences - for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Delingpole" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-delingpole/i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-on-about-the-fact-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/james-delingpole-52252_art_i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-o_376687.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/james-delingpole-52252_art_i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-o_376687.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/james-delingpole-52252_art_i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-o_376687.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself…” — James Delingpole", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence. It is about claims that can be, and have been, tested through scientific research—experiments, experience, and observation—research that is then subject to critical review by a jury of scientific peers. Claims that have not gone through that process—or have gone through it and failed—are not scientific, and do not deserve equal time in a scientific debate.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Naomi Oreskes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-oreskes/while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposing-opinions-makes-sense-in-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/naomi-oreskes-16659_political-system_while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposin_497418.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/naomi-oreskes-16659_political-system_while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposin_497418.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/naomi-oreskes-16659_political-system_while-the-idea-of-equal-time-for-opposin_497418.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not…” — Naomi Oreskes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now - It's like a bunch of theologians arguing over how many angels you can stick on the head of a needle. When you've got a side that changes from global warming, global warming, global warming to climate change, which is intuitive - the climate has always been changing since the beginning of time - and then just begins to claim every answer is the correct answer, you often stand back, and I don't care who you are, you have to question as to what the real motive is in this.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joe Bastardi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-bastardi/i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-cause-confusion-and-i-think/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/joe-bastardi-44683_angel_i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-c_1682516.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/joe-bastardi-44683_angel_i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-c_1682516.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/joe-bastardi-44683_angel_i-think-it-s-just-yet-another-piece-to-c_1682516.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is…” — Joe Bastardi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Bondi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-bondi/science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-fact-is-an-emotion-loaded-word/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/hermann-bondi-28727_accounts_science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-f_2622278.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/hermann-bondi-28727_accounts_science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-f_2622278.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/hermann-bondi-28727_accounts_science-doesn-t-deal-with-facts-indeed-f_2622278.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in…” — Hermann Bondi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to play out in the decades ahead, because this is a large experiment that we haven't done before, and no one knows precisely how one can ever precisely predict what effects this heat will have. But all the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill McKibben" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over-what-is-happening-of-course/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/bill-mckibben-1057_climate_there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over_3089794.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/bill-mckibben-1057_climate_there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over_3089794.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/bill-mckibben-1057_climate_there-is-no-real-scientific-debate-over_3089794.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is…” — Bill McKibben", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Al Gore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over-there-is-no-more-debate-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/al-gore-609_arizona_the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over_3159543.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/al-gore-609_arizona_the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over_3159543.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/al-gore-609_arizona_the-debate-among-the-scientists-if-over_3159543.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. 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