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Inherency

Last week, The United States Upheld a Tariff Against Chinese Solar Energy Technology. Paradoxically, This Policy Is Detrimental to the Solar Industry in the United States

McDonald 10/11 is an energy industry analyst for Irrawaddy: Covering Bermudaand  Southeast Asia "China Hits Out at US Solar Panel Tariffs." 

¶ BEIJING—China demanded Thursday that Washington repeal steep tariffs on solar panels that
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spokesman, Wang Shuai. "No one does business to lose money."

Plan

In order to increase solar energy production in the United States, we argue the plan:

Plan: The United States Federal Government should remove the antidumping tariffs that are placed on solar panels manufactured in the People’s Republic of China.  

Advantage 1: Environment

Current U.S Policy Reverses Solar Energy Sector Growth and Increases Production Costs CASE 5/17/12 Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, "CASE Responds to Damaging Solar Tariff Decision," http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/idUS201557+17-May-2012+BW20120517-http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/idUS201557+17-May-2012+BW20120517====

According to Kevin Lapidus, Senior Vice President Legal and Government Affairs for SunEdison,
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the ability of solar energy to compete with electricity generated from fossil fuel."
 

Increased Solar Production Cost Ensures Fossil Fuel Use

Jabusch 5/23/12 Garvin Jabusch is cofounder and chief investment officer of Green Alpha ® Advisors, and is co-manager of the Green Alpha ® Next Economy Index, or GANEX and the Sierra Club Green Alpha Portfolio. "Tariffs on Chinese Solar Are Bad for Us All," http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2012/05/tariffs_on_chinese_solar_are_bad_for_us_all.html**

The United States Department of Commerce Thursday, and of all things at the behest
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from the growth of U.S. jobs and affordable solar energy.
 

Fossil Fuels are the biggest emitters of CO2

EPA 2012 (EPA energy gas emissions page, 9/26, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html)

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities.
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The main sources of CO2 emissions in the United States are described below.

Climate change is anthropogenic

Lewandowsky and Ashley ’11 (Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Studies at the University of Western Australia, and Michael Ashley, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of New South Wales, June 24, 2011, "The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change," http://goo.gl/u3nOC)

But despite these complexities, some aspects of climate science are thoroughly settled. We
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the 19th century, pre-dating even Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria.

Technology is needed to prevent extinction of species

Chris Thomas ’04 Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. "Extinction Risk from Climate Change."  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6970/full/nature02121.html-http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6970/full/nature02121.html

Climate change over the past 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and
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implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.

Unchecked emissions cause extinction

Sify ’10 (Sydney newspaper citing Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, professor at University of Queensland and Director of the Global Change Institute, and John Bruno, associate professor of Marine Science at UNC (Sify News, "Could unbridled climate changes lead to human extinction?", http://www.sify.com/news/could-unbridled-climate-changes-lead-to-human-extinction-news-international-kgtrOhdaahc.html, TGA)

The findings of the comprehensive report: ’The impact of climate change on the world’s
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, according to a GCI release. These findings were published in Science. 

Climate change destroys biodiversity.

Cochrane 5/26/11 (Madaline Cochrane, "The Fate of Alpine Species in the Face of Climate Change: A Biogeographic Perspective," Macalester Reviews in Biogeography: Vol. 2, Article 1)
Understanding the way species are able to move across space as our climate warms can
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of the world today.

Advantage 2: China

Our Current Antidumping Policy Harms US-China Relations

Vicki Needham 5/18 "China Rejects US Antidumping Ruling on Solar Panels." The Hill. 

The Chinese government on Friday called a U.S. antidumping ruling on makers
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to produce solar panels and exports such goods to the U.S."¶ 

====2. Solar industry is seen as vital cornerstone of Chinese economy by government officials Kaften 5/7 2012, North America Correspondent at PV Magazine, Green IT/Smart Energy Writer at Green Technology World, a TMCnet publication—focus on green energy news, Solar ’smackdowns’ resume in reaction to China’s 5 year plan, ====
http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/solar-smackdowns-resume-in-reaction-to-chinas-5-year-plan_100006652/~~%23ixzz24dg37A4F-http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/solar-smackdowns-resume-in-reaction-to-chinas-5-year-plan_100006652/

Therefore, the PRC says that demand for solar systems should be driven "mainly
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and "internationalization," in keeping with China’s "Going Abroad" strategy.

3. China’s economy is key to global economic recovery

China Daily 12 
Copyright by People’s Daily Online, All Rights Reserved http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90778/7941982.html-http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90778/7941982.html**¶ Li Jiabao 9/10/12

China will lead the global economic recovery with its relatively fast GDP growth driven by
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China is changing its growth model with strong domestic demand and great reserves.
4. China projected to produce significant portions of world GDP in near future
The Economist 2011
Sep 10th 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/21528591
 Three forces will dictate China’s rise, Mr Subramanian argues: demography, convergence
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remains worried about the future, its rivals need not worry too much.

5. Economic crisis causes war–strong statistical support

Royal 10 (Jedediah, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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As such the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. 

Sino-US relations are key to global peace and economic growth

Barnett 2005
(Thomas, "The Chinese Are Our Friends", Esquire, November 1)
It is no secret that in a generation’s time China’s influence over
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document. There is no alternative.