Starts of arguments (to be continued)

Steve Kemp, molecular geneticist:
It's all in the data; everything you're talking about can be restated as a data challenge problem.

Keith Jones, forest biologist:
Data aren't the answer. Data don't solve anything. People are the answer. They always have been.

Phil Thornton, systems analyst:
The climate data is crap, you know. We all know that.