Al Gore Quotes About Debate

Quotes about: Debate

• The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

  Al Gore

  Moon, Thinking, People

• ...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.

  Al Gore

  Science, Moon, People

• It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Law, Political

• The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.

  Al Gore

  Responsibility, Community, Political

• If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Moon, People

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

• Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

  Al Gore

  Sports, Games, People

• The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient to the large carbon polluters. And so they want to bob and weave and dodge the truth, and pretend like it's still a big controversy, and it's not. They want to pretend that this is up for debate. Like, whether or not the world is round is up for debate, or whether the moon landing really took place.

  Al Gore

  Moon, World, Debate

  "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.

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