| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Advantage 1 is China Tensions are fueling naval arms races in the South China Sea because of oil insecurity Glaser, 12— a senior fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Bonnie, Armed Clash in the South China Sea, April 2012, http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883) The risk of conflict in the …. be seen, but for now tensions appear to be defused. AND, the situation will spiral out of control Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel [Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm] Neither the U.S. nor China has any … U.S. and China can lay now. AND, extinction Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. [Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446] While nuclear weapons exist, there …. improve U.S.-China relations. If the American and Chinese people are interested in ensuring their survival and that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies. ALSO, south china sea conflict will draw in india Pant, 12—teaches at King's College London in the Department of Defence Studies and is an Associate with the King's Centre of Science and Security Studies. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His research is focused on Asia-Pacific security issues (Harsh V., South China Sea: New Arena of Sino-Indian Rivalry , August 2nd, 2012, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/south-china-sea-new-arena-sino-indian-rivalry) LONDON: While the world focuses on the …. realistically with appropriate resources and capabilities. Results in nuclear conflict Caryl 10 [Christian, Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the editor of Foreign Policy's Democracy Lab website, “Don't Even Think About It,” 7-13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/13/dont_even_think_about_it?page=0,1] China and India have built ….. spiral out of control." You can say that again. And, oil disputes are fueling conflict over the senkaku islands Ramzy, 12 (Austin, Beijing correspondent for TIME. “Tensions with Japan Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands.” TIME, September 14, 2012. http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/.) The standoff between China and …. in China, and it likely will again this year. Results in nuclear war Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. “Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute.” The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.) BEIJING - It has all the ingredients of a ….of a cohesive recovery in the United States." Four internal links— First, tech swaps provide sufficient backing for US incentives Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force [John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781] To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture costs? There’s where we think China comes in. China … develop CCS technology with little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Second, EOR lays a fundamental framework for other energy policies Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute [Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php] All these factors combined call into … more comprehensive climate policy. //1ac Third, the plan is a key confidence building measure Zha and Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong [Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are certainly ….can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Forth, oil production is key – The alt is a strategic rivalry and conflict in every oil producing region in the world Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego [Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations] Competing Visions of Energy Security …real global oil industry of today. Advantage 2 – Warming Warming is real and anthropogenic—natural variability cannot account for overwhelming trends Schiermeier, 11 (Quirin, At least three-quarters of climate change is man-made, December 4th, 2011, http://www.nature.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/news/at-least-three-quarters-of-climate-change-is-man-made-1.9538) Natural climate variability is …. grounded in the kind of changes already being observed. The tax credit stimulates a carbon market that results in carbon capture and storage Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions [Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration] And I also want to discuss one of the …sequestration in the future. AND, only carbon capture and storage can mitigate extreme temperature swings and the worst impacts of warming Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy [Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, including the … recognizes it must address with alacrity. //1ac AND, reducing CO2 is key is essential to prevent a tipping point Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies [Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) and Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) “Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?” Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231 Realization that today’s climate .. . out of humanity’s control. Three internal links— First, establishing a market incentive for industrial source CO2 solves Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin [Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from … shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 //1ac Second, our incentive results in negative emissions Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech [Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion This paper is devoted to discussing the global … of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 //1ac Three, china tech cooperation solves warming Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, “Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1) WASHINGTON — As futuristic … regulatory framework to enable this technology.” Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center [Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian extinction…, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 //1ac AND, ocean acidification causes extinction Romm 2-18-10 [Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529] Marine life face some of the worst …t slashing carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all of humanity Ferguson 12 [Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html] I came across a news report back in …. The Russian report on Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction Sato 8 [Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html] Recent research suggests that the size of the … deal with the magnitude of sea level rise that we are likely to induce. We, as a society, are not.” The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for tertiary recovery in the United States that uses industrial carbon dioxide.
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| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Federal action is key
Brugato 11 – JD from Harvard Law School [Thomas Brugato, “NOTE: THE PROPERTY PROBLEM: A SURVEY OF FEDERAL OPTIONS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION REPOSITORIES” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2011, 29 Va. Envtl. L.J. 305 The federal government has a …. to enable CCS. AND, only the federal government can do this quickly
Monast, 8—directs the climate and energy program at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and teaches Energy, Environment and the Law at Duke Law School (Jonas, “From Carbon Capture to Storage: Toward an Effective Regulatory Structure for CO2 Pipelines,” December 2008) VII. Conclusion
CCS technologies are expected … with multiple regulatory structures. states cant do tax credits
Moody 10 – Founder and president of James R. Moody and Associates, a governmental relations and consulting firm [James R. Moody, “The Economic Dangers Of Deferring State Tax Credits,” James R. Moody and Associates, May 2010, pg. http://www.jamesrmoody.com/fileshare/Report%20on%20New%20York%20Tax%20Credits.pdf] State governments are … two or three years. AND, kills certainty
Sovacool, 2009 [Benjamin, Energy Governance Program, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore. “Rejecting renewables: The socio-technical impediments to renewable electricity in the United States” Energy Policy 37 (2009) 4500–4513] Consequently, the variability of …expensive litigation (Sovacool and Cooper, 2007). Federal loan guarantees key
Caperton, Director of Clean Energy Investment at American Progress, 7/12/12 (Richard W., The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on the ‘No More Solyndras Act’ Testimony Submitted to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/12/11876/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-no-more-solyndras-act/ Why does the loan guarantee program … tools that don’t exist in many states. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Romney wins
Nesbit 8 – 28 – 12 former director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies; a senior communications official at the White House [Jeff Nesbit, “Economic Model Looks at History, Sees Victory Ahead for Romney,” US News and World Report Blogs: At the Edge, http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2012/08/28/economic-model-looks-at-history-sees-victory-ahead-for-romney] Never mind the media's current … money talks. End of discussion.¶ No link—The plan is a part of the all of the above strategy
Alston and Bird LLP 12 [Environment and Land Use Blog, “Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative Released,” March 7, 2012 | pg. http://www.alston.com/environmentalandlandblog/blog.aspx?entry=4538] Last week, the National Enhanced Oil … that is re-invigorating oil fields.” No link—Obama pushing clean coal strategies now
WSJ 5 – 11 – 12 Wall Street Journal Obama Camp Adds Coal to ‘All of the Above’ Energy Strategy, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/11/obama-camp-adds-coal-to-all-of-the-above-energy-strategy/ President Barack Obama‘s re-…all-of-the-above energy strategy.” Link turn—the plan is popular with environmental groups
Bevill 12 [Kris Bevill, “Carbon capture initiative could benefit ethanol producers,” Ethanol Producer Magazine, | February 29, 2012, pg. http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/8606/carbon-capture-initiative-could-benefit-ethanol-producers] A number of Congressional ,… “That’s not a common thing.” No link—the plan would help the econmy
NCC 11 – Federal Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy on coal and the coal industry [National Coal Council, “Expedited CCS Development: Challenges and Opportunities,” March 18, 2011 As new technologies are introduced, people … development opportunity. AT: elections DA No link uniqueness—greens are already mad at Obama but they are voting for him anyway
Politico 6/18/2012 [Darren Samuelsohn Greens give Obama wilting enthusiasm
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A89E603A-7C5C-4E57-9DB8-FB3AE331776F] Environmentalists are … campaign progresses,” Brune added. Energy issues won’t switch votes
NATIONAL JOURNAL 9 – 19 – 12 [National Journal By Olga Belogolova, Insiders: Oil-Price Volatility Won’t Affect Election, http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/insiders-oil-price-volatility-won-t-affect-election-20120919#.UFsddiG2CPw.twitter] During his acceptance speech at the … been shoved off the field,” one Insider said. Romney just like Obama – differences are all talk
Sanger ’12 Chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation and Asian affairs. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize
[David E. Sanger “Is there a Romney doctrine?” May 12, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/sunday-review/is-there-a-romney-doctrine.html?pagewanted=all] Iran may be a first test. Mr. … to a peaceful resolution. Conflict will not escalate – casualties low and empirically false
Luttwak 7 senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Edward “The middle of nowhere”, May 2007, Prospect)
Why are middle east experts so unfailingly …. of conflict in Darfur. |
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Doesn’t come first—Prioritize environmental existence over framing and ontology.
Paul WAPNER Prf. And Director of the Global Environmental Policy Program @ American ‘3 “Leftist Criticism of ‘Nature’” Dissent Winter p. 74-75 The third response to eco-criticism …diversity of nature.” Rejecting a realist epistemology makes recognizing most important environmental harms an ontological impossibility.
Ted BENTON Sociology @ Essex ‘5 in After Postmodernism eds. Jose Lopez and Garry Potter p. 145 Finally, any adequate … ecological problems would be an ontological impossibility. Problem-solution impact is backwards—acting with a flawed epistemology allows us to change that epistemology.
Graham HARRIS Adjunct Prf. @ Centre for Environment University of Tasmania ‘7 Seeking Sustainability in an age of complexity p. 9-10 1 am not going to address the global 'litany' at … in relationships with society and less as observers. Environmental management like cap and trade creates better solutions, not error replication.
Graham HARRIS Adjunct Prf. @ Centre for Environment University of Tasmania ‘7 Seeking Sustainability in an age of complexity p. 235-236 In global science and remote sensing … to be able to make the decision 'stick'. And, no link to turns case—CCS is more important for sustainability than institutional or attitudinal change.
Joseph HUBER Inst. of Sociology @ Martin Luther University (Germany) ‘8 “Pioneer countries and the global diffusion of environmental innovations: Theses from the viewpoint of ecological modernisation theory” Global Environmental Change 18 p. 360-361 - Introduction This text deals with a number of …, is a necessity rather than another fall from grace (Allenby, 2005).
Changing growth to solve climate change works – radical social change won’t.
Manuel Arias-MALDONADO Poli Sci @ Malaga ’12 Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature p. 116-120 In principle, public opinion should just rely on … to be more accurate, it can be made true. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Plan The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States.
Oil Adv Advantage 1 is China
Oil insecurity is fueling a naval arms race in the South China Sea
Glaser, 12— a senior fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Bonnie, Armed Clash in the South China Sea, April 2012, http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883) The risk of conflict in the South China … tensions appear to be defused. The situation will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm Neither the U.S. nor China ….U.S. and China can lay now. Extinction
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there … working to encourage these policies. Oil fuels conflict over the senkaku islands
Ramzy, 12 (Austin, Beijing correspondent for TIME. “Tensions with Japan Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands.” TIME, September 14, 2012. http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/.) The standoff between … and it likely will again this year. Nuclear war
Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. “Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute.” The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.) BEIJING - It has all the … lack of a cohesive recovery in the United States." Four internal links—
First, tech swaps provide sufficient backing for US incentives
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781
To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture costs?
There’s where we think China … no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Second, EOR lays a fundamental framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php All these factors combined call …for a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Third, the plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha and Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are … partnership can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Oil production is key – The alt is a strategic rivalry and conflict in every oil producing region in the world
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations
Competing Visions of Energy Security
On the vexing challenge of … fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Warming Adv Advantage 2 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Archer and Rahmstorf, 10—*a professor of Geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global warming professor of Physics of the oceans, and head of the department at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (David and Stefan, The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Page 66) So what are the results? Those studies …altering climate in a profound way. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration And I also want to discuss one of the … you to visit the website, www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, …community recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac AND, reducing CO2 key to prevent a tipping point
Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) and Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) “Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?” Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231 Realization that today’s climate … dynamic responses that could be out of humanity’s control. Three internal links—
First, establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from … shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac Second, our incentive results in negative emissions
Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the … of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Three, we get china on board
Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, “Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1) WASHINGTON — As futuristic … to enable this technology.” Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian … sound, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac AND, ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 2-18-10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529 Marine life face some of the … carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all of humanity
Ferguson 12 Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html I came across a news … Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html Recent research suggests … forcings, such as slight changes in the tilt of Earth’s axis.2 Solvency Contention 3 is solvency
Linking CO2 capture with oil production spurs a carbon market that meets unmet demand
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) As the thinking goes, EOR could provide a huge .. It's not clear to me what that is." Current efforts for EOR are not good enough because of scope and source—CO2 EOR is critical
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) A key carbon-cutting technology … of CO2 isn't too steep," Melzer said. |
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Advantage 1 is energy invisibility This is a direct result of the design of the centralized energy system on which modern society runs—we are distanced, geographically and emotionally, from the sources of electricity. This distance and the attendant intangibility of energy makes awareness and sustainability impossible.
Pierce and Paulos, 2010 James Pierce, Eric Paulos, researcher and Cooper-Siegel Endowed Chair at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University “Materializing energy”, http://www.paulos.net/papers/2010/MaterializingEnergy_DIS2010.pdf THE INTANGIBILITY OF ENERGY A …., and activating energy. The environmental costs of the traditional power system-- from climate change to water pollution to air pollution—are massive but not accounted for. This destroys the environment and makes renewables economically uncompetitive.
Sovacool, 2009 Benjamin, Energy Governance Program, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Also, knocked Herndon out of the NDT his junior year. On vagueness. Siiiiiiiick. “Rejecting renewables: The socio-technical impediments to renewable electricity in the United States” Energy Policy 37 (2009) 4500–4513 3. Economic … a tricycle against a Ferrari. This is an issue of justice—minority communities bear the brunt of environmental damage with massive effects on health
Clark, 2008 Catherine, MA in public Policy @ Oregon State, “Environmental Justice and Energy Production: Coal-Fired Power Plants in Illinois” http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/9770/clark-mpp.pdf?sequence=1 Two grievances are … and regression analysis techniques. This sort of environmental racism must be rejected
Environmental Justice Network, No date http://www.ejnet.org/ej/
Definitions:
Environmental … result of the behavior. This centralized energy system has created fuel poverty, where some people lack access to the heat and electricity that lets them survive. This is not just a failure to provide cheap energy, it is also a failure to recognize and listen to the needs of marginalized communities.
Walker and Day, 2012 Gordon and Rosie, ¶ a Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster,¶ b School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Fuel poverty as injustice: Integrating distribution, recognition and procedure in the struggle for affordable warmth, Energy Policy
Volume 49, October 2012, Pages 69–75 - Introduction
Over the past 30 years in … and claims for injustice” (Schlosberg, 2004, p. 529)
Provision of clean energy for all and necessary energy for those in need is a RIGHTS ISSUE that MUST be addressed—government policy can solve.
Bordman, 2012 Brenda, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK , Energy Policy 49 (2012) 143–148
4. Conclusion¶ To be able to be …of the most basic of human rights.
PLAN: The United States Federal Government should provide necessary financial incentives for community-planned solar and wind energy production. Advantage 2 is empowered communities
Momentum exists for a fundamental change in our energy system. Our policies need to stop supporting centralized elite, technocratic, corporate solutions and empower local community movements by encouraging smaller-scale generation and distribution of energy.
An overt political challenge is a necessary component of this strategy. The plan’s confrontation with status quo energy elites galvanizes movements and lends legitimacy to broader environmental movements.
Scrase and Smith, 2009 Ivan SCRASE Science and Technology Policy Research @ Sussex AND Adrian SMITH Science and Technology Policy Research @ Sussex ‘9 “The (non-)politics of managing low carbon socio-technical
Transitions” Environmental Politics 18 (5) p. 722-724
Political strategies for transitions In … programme for low carbon transitions. Energy must be rendered tangible via local generation. Doing so builds a bridge between “energy awareness”—the status quo where people know about environmental consequences but don’t change their behavior—and “energy engagement”, where we actively remake our lives towards sustainability.
This tangible engagement is the difference between shrilly shouting at people about energy and inviting and teaching them to change their lives. The aff is the key to guiding our relationship with energy and society towards a sustainable future.
Pierce and Paulos, 2010 James Pierce, Eric Paulos, researcher and Cooper-Siegel Endowed Chair at the¶ Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University “Materializing energy”, http://www.paulos.net/papers/2010/MaterializingEnergy_DIS2010.pdf Designing for energy engagement and …our world to be otherwise. And, The plan’s incentive for local renewable microgeneration creates a material and emotional interaction with energy that challenges the monolithic energy structure of the status quo and fosters a broader discussion and participation in discussions about energy. Awareness alone is insufficient—this sort of material engagement is a prerequisite to meaningful participation, and creates sustainable relationships to both the environment and society—we become aware of the ethical effects of our energy decisions
Pierce and Paulos, 2010 James Pierce, Eric Paulos, researcher and Cooper-Siegel Endowed Chair at the¶ Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University ”Designing for emotional attachment to energy” http://www.jamesjpierce.com/publications/pierce-emotional_energy.pdf 4.2. Transforming our … everyday interactions and practices toward sustainability. The plan encourages a set of technologies that mediates our relationship with energy in such a way that it directs it towards sustainability—the psychological effects of its integration create wholesale cultural change and awareness—we think about the social aspects and not just the technology
Pierce and Paulos, 2010 James Pierce, Eric Paulos, researcher and Cooper-Siegel Endowed Chair at the¶ Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University “Materializing energy”, http://www.paulos.net/papers/2010/MaterializingEnergy_DIS2010.pdf
Our approach is grounded in a belief that …. into those capable of being sustained. 5 The plan’s flexible approach to generation emphasized local needs, ownership and control. This is an institutional change that challenges the central energy system by encouraging polycentric decision-making and empowering local actors at the expense of status quo energy elites—this can resolve issues like fuel poverty and differential distribution of environmental risk
Wolsink, 2011 Maarten, Maarten Wolsink∗
Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam,” The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart
grids: Renewable as common pool resources” Elsevier Journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 6. Concluding remarks
What are the social foundations … developments. Ultimately the danger is that it will impede the application of the most promising solutions for smart grid development. The plan’s focus on community-based solutions is essential for both broader adoption of technology and functional distributed generation schemes. Allowing communities to come together around their local generation networks creates a shared sense of ownership—leading people to participate—and responsibility—leading to changes in consumption patterns. Cookie cutter, imposed solutions are doomed to failure.
Wolsink, 2011 Maarten, Maarten Wolsink∗
Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam,” The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart
grids: Renewable as common pool resources” Elsevier Journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews . Community perspective
4.1. Trust
In addition to being physically close, DG … vehicle penetration 31. Community recognition of this sort is key to address distributional injustice of fuel poverty—failure to take community into account and tailor special programs means that specific needs are neglected.
Walker and Day, 2012 Gordon and Rosie, ¶ a Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster,¶ b School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Fuel poverty as injustice: Integrating distribution, recognition and procedure in the struggle for affordable warmth, Energy Policy
Volume 49, October 2012, Pages 69–75 3. Fuel poverty and justice as recognition
An alternative conceptualisation to … of policy interventions. We need to treat fuel poverty as an issue of justice, interconnected with other concerns of environmental justice. The plan provides the sort of multifaceted recognition and aid that is a necessary first step
Walker and Day, 2012 Gordon and Rosie, ¶ a Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster,¶ b School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Fuel poverty as injustice: Integrating distribution, recognition and procedure in the struggle for affordable warmth, Energy Policy
Volume 49, October 2012, Pages 69–75 Second then, in terms of future …. climate injustice. |
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at: incentives not key
Government action is key—that’s sovocool, pierce and paulos, and scrase
Incentives are essential—they empower and create political coalitions and constituencies that lead to broader change.
James MEADOWCROFT School of Public Policy @ Carleton (Canada) ‘7 “Who is in Charge Here? Governance for sustainable development in a complex world” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 9 p.22-25 In attempting to influence reform … sustainable development. at: ableism Representations and framework aren’t a prior issue—arguments for better policy should draw from different frameworks when appropriate.
Andrew LIGHT Environmental Philosophy @ NYU ‘5 “What is Pragmatic Philosophy”
http://faculty.washington.edu/alight/papers/Light.What%20Pragmatic.pdf. P. 349-351 I have no easy answer to this …. to utilitarianism. VIOLENCE EXISTS INDEPENDENT OF LANGUAGE
Ruben G. Apressyan, Chair of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, Director of the Research and Education Center for the Ethics of Nonviolence, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at Moscow Lomonosov State University, December, 1998 PEACE REVIEW, v. 10, i. 4
There is another aspect, … "keeps silence." REGULATING VIOLENT LANGUAGE DOES VIOLENCE TO THOSE WHO ARE TARGETED FOR PROTECTION
Michael J. Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii, December, 1998 PEACE REVIEW, v. 10, i. 4
Of late, critical and … individual and global society. Using the language of dominant groups is necessary for effective political change even if that language is dangerous-we can speak inside of that language even as we use the plan to push beyond it
White, 2000 - professor of law at Harvard (Lucie, 19 St. Louis University Public Law Review 431, lexis) Throughout this essay, … "which side" they are on. 2AC—race Also, Energy policy advocacy is a tool not a trap. Even if we have no chance to cause the energy changes we wish, we should build momentum and support for these ideas.
Elizabeth SHOVE Sociology @ Lancaster AND Gordon WALKER Geography @ Lancaster ‘7 “CAUTION! Transitions ahead: politics, practice, and sustainable transition management” Environment and Planning C 39 (4) For academic readers, our …. happen, but not in ways that we can anticipate or know. Fourth, State-based support for environmental movements is crucial.
John BARRY AND Robyn ECKERSLEY Poli Sci @ Melbourne ‘5 Ecological Crisis and the state p.x-xiii Against the background of these … studies and conceptual analyses. We should not abandon the category of universal humanity. Anti-slavery abolition and its intersections with critiques of gendered citizenship drew on universal humanity as a source of solidarity.
Paul GILROY Anthony Giddens Prf. of Social Theory @ London School of Economics ‘9 Race and the Right to be Human p. 6-11 At times, the movement …. in general and racial hierarchy in particular.
The permutation solves best—Revolutionary environmental justice strategy just mirrors the totalizing and destructive strategies of modern rationalism.
Douglas TORGERSON Politics @ Trent ’99 The Promise of Green Politics p. 145-148 VARIETIES OF REFORMISM AND …. that no single party could predict or control. And, more evidence, societal reception and framing are essential to the integration of renewable technology
Sovacool, 2009 Benjamin, Energy Governance Program, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Also, knocked Herndon out of the NDT his junior year. On vagueness. Siiiiiiiick. “Rejecting renewables: The socio-technical impediments to renewable electricity in the United States” Energy Policy 37 (2009) 4500–4513 Hughes argued that large technological …. in the next three sections. Focus on ethics at the expense of politics destroys the efficacy of the altenative moralizing bad
David SIMPSON English @ UC Davis ‘2 Situatedness, or Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From p.
218-221 The Persistence of Ethics The …. metaphysics of individuality itself. |
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The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States.
Oil Adv Advantage 1 is China
Oil insecurity is fueling a naval arms race in the South China Sea
Ross 11/7/12 (Robert S., Professor of Political Science at Boston College and an Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics. “The Problem With the Pivot.”Foreign Affairs. 1 Nov. 2012. Web. 7 Nov. 2012. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138211/robert-s-ross/the-problem-with-the-pivot?page=show.) Even if the United States ….inconsequential islands. The situation will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm Neither the U.S. nor China ….U.S. and China can lay now. Extinction
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there … working to encourage these policies. Oil fuels conflict over the senkaku islands
Ramzy, 12 (Austin, Beijing correspondent for TIME. “Tensions with Japan Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands.” TIME, September 14, 2012. http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/.) The standoff between … and it likely will again this year. Nuclear war
Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. “Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute.” The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.) BEIJING - It has all the … lack of a cohesive recovery in the United States." Four internal links—
First, tech swaps provide sufficient backing for US incentives
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781 To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture costs?
There’s where we think China … no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Second, EOR lays a fundamental framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php All these factors combined call …for a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Third, the plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha and Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are … partnership can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Oil production is key – The alt is a strategic rivalry and conflict in every oil producing region in the world
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations
Competing Visions of Energy Security
On the vexing challenge of … fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Warming Adv Advantage 2 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Archer and Rahmstorf, 10—*a professor of Geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global warming professor of Physics of the oceans, and head of the department at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (David and Stefan, The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Page 66) So what are the results? Those studies …altering climate in a profound way. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration And I also want to discuss one of the … you to visit the website, www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, …community recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac AND, reducing CO2 key to prevent a tipping point
Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) and Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) “Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?” Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231 Realization that today’s climate … dynamic responses that could be out of humanity’s control. Three internal links—
First, establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from … shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac Second, our incentive results in negative emissions
Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the … of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Three, we get china on board
Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, “Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1) WASHINGTON — As futuristic … to enable this technology.” Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian … sound, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac AND, ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 2-18-10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529 Marine life face some of the … carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all of humanity
Ferguson 12 Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html I came across a news … Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html Recent research suggests … forcings, such as slight changes in the tilt of Earth’s axis.2 Solvency Contention 3 is solvency
Linking CO2 capture with oil production spurs a carbon market that meets unmet demand
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) As the thinking goes, EOR could provide a huge .. It's not clear to me what that is." Current efforts for EOR are not good enough because of scope and source—CO2 EOR is critical
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) A key carbon-cutting technology … of CO2 isn't too steep," Melzer said. |
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Plan The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States.
Oil Adv Advantage 1 is China
Tensions escalating in south china sea due to energy competition
Perlez, 12—the chief diplomatic correspondent in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. She covers China and its foreign policy, particularly relations between the United States and China, and their impact on the Asian region.(Jane, “Dispute Flares Over Energy in South China Sea,” December 4th, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/world/asia/china-vietnam-and-india-fight-over-energy-exploration-in-south-china-sea.html?partner=rssandemc=rssand_r=0andpagewanted=print BEIJING — China and two of its neighbors, …., “the cable cutting is really unfriendly.” SCS disputes will erupt into armed conflict
Goh 11 - Professor of International Relations @ Royal Holloway University of London Dr. Evelyn Goh, “Still Waters Run Deep in the South China Sea,” Pnyx: Comment on Global Security and Politics, Friday, September 9, 2011, pg. http://www.pnyxblog.com/pnyx/2011/9/9/still-waters-run-deep-in-the-south-china-sea.html Various claimants are …. their larger global interests. The situation will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm Neither the U.S. nor China has …. on what kind of groundwork the U.S. and China can lay now. Extinction
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there ….encourage these policies. Senkakus will escalate—political changes in Japan and China risk easy escalation
MacKinnon, 12 (Mark, “Dangerous moves in the East China Sea could bring Japan, China to armed conflict,” December 4th, 2012, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/dangerous-moves-in-the-east-china-sea-could-bring-japan-china-to-armed-conflict/article5904643/?page=2) The Japanese surveillance plane is an hour into its …. waters over which it claims sovereignty. Nuclear war
Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. “Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute.” The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.) BEIJING - It has all the …. recovery in the United States." Four internal links—
First, tech swaps provide sufficient backing for US incentives
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781
To spur EOR, how can we bring down …. little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Second, EOR lays a fundamental framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php All these factors combined call …. comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Third, the plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha and Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are certainly ….the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Oil production is key – determines strategic calculus
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations
Competing Visions of Energy Security …. the same time aggravating energy security fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Warming Adv Advantage 2 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Archer and Rahmstorf, 10—*a professor of Geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global warming professor of Physics of the oceans, and head of the department at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (David and Stefan, The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Page 66) So what are the results? Those studies analyzing global …. climate in a profound way. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration And I also want to discuss one of the …. www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, including the United States…. must address with alacrity. 1ac AND, reducing CO2 key to prevent a tipping point
Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) and Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) “Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?” Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231 Realization that today’s climate is far out of …. humanity’s control. Three internal links—
First, establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from …. and the rents associated with oil production are shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac Second, our incentive results in negative emissions
Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the …. in the design of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Three, we get china on board
Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, “Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1) WASHINGTON — As futuristic projects …. to enable this technology.” Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian extinction, a …. they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac AND, ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 2-18-10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529 Marine life face some of the worst …. since we depend on that life — the time to start slashing carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all of humanity
Ferguson 12 Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html I came across a news report back in …... The Russian report on Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html Recent research suggests that the …. that we are likely to induce. We, as a society, are not.” Solvency Contention 3 is solvency
Linking CO2 capture with oil production spurs a carbon market that meets unmet demand
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) As the thinking goes, EOR could provide a …. there. It's not clear to me what that is." Investment will result in CCS, pipelines, jobs, and leverage in other countries
Institute for 21st Century Energy, 12 (November 20th, 2012, http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/020174_EI21_EnhancedOilRecovery_final.pdf) This added oil production …. EOR in other countries. 1AC—CO2 EOR investment solves warming by reducing anthropogenic carbon—storage solves
Drajem, 12/19 (U.S. Oil Fields Could Store Decades of Carbon Emissions, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/energy-department-says-oil-fields-could-store-decades-of-carbon.html) Depleted North …. lack of carbon dioxide,” Waltzer said. CO2 EOR solves warming and results in no environmental impact
Institute for 21st Century Energy, 12 (November 20th, 2012, http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/020174_EI21_EnhancedOilRecovery_final.pdf) ENVIRONMENTAL¶ …. imposing a government-mandated¶ price on carbon. Current efforts for EOR are not good enough because of scope and source—CO2 EOR is critical
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) A key carbon-cutting technology …. isn't too steep," Melzer said. |
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Incentives now
DAILY CALLER 1 – 1 – 13 ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal includes one-year extension for wind tax credits, http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/01/fiscal-cliff-deal-includes-one-year-extension-for-wind-tax-credits/ According to the …. enough.” No agenda
AP 12 – 26 – 12 Charles Babington, Obama Agenda Provides Long Work List To Tackle When He Returns, http://www.timesleaderonline.com/page/content.detail/id/543590/Obama-has-lengthy-work-list-to-tackle.html?nav=5010 Even with a full plate …. direction." Gun control will thump immigration
WEBER 1 – 1 – 13 Fox News Analyst Joseph Weber, Guns, immigration, fiscal issues emerge as top priorities for Obama, new Congress, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/01/gun-control-immigration-reform-fiscal-issues-emerge-as-top-issues-for-new/ Danielle Doane, director of …. if Democrats pass legislation. Bipartisan support for the plan – Their generic ev doesn’t apply
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration At a time of economic struggle, …l security and the environment. Voting Neg links to politics – means the plan was debated before congress and voted down. Winners win—victories snowball
SINGER 09 senior writer and editor for MyDD My Direct Democracy, 3-3-09, http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428) From the latest NBC News-Wall …ending the war in Iraq. Issues are compartmentalized – political capital has no effect on legislation
Dickinson, 09 – professor of political science at Middlebury College and taught previously at Harvard University where he worked under the supervision of presidential scholar Richard Neustadt (5/26/09, Matthew, Presidential Power: A NonPartisan Analysis of Presidential Politics, “Sotomayor, Obama and Presidential Power,” http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/, JMP) As for Sotomayor, from here the path toward almost … cannot be measured through legislative boxscores. Budget fights thump Obama’s agenda
LA TIMES 12 – 31 – 12 Obama wins 'fiscal cliff' victory, but at high cost, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fiscal-cliff-analysis-20130101,0,6417926.story?fb_ref=fb_widget The announcement Monday night of …. and gun control. Current violence is a nuisance but unlikely to escalate to large scale conflict or pose at threat to US security interests
Cárdenas 11 Mauricio, senior fellow and director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution, was cabinet minister during the Gaviria and Pastrana administrations in Colombia. Think Again Latin America, Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/17/think_again_latin_america?page=full "Latin America is violent and …. loss of popular support. |
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US production can’t change prices
Borenstein, 12. (Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business and co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas. He teaches course in microeconomics and energy markets and has published numerous papers on oil and gasoline markets. “US Can’t Control the World Oil Market.” March 2, 2012. http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-obama-to-blame-for-high-gas-prices/the-us-cant-control-the-world-oil-market) Oil prices drive gasoline prices …. will change those hard realities. High prices turn warming
Ferguson, 12—President, Federation of American Scientists (Charles D., “Adverse Consequences of Iranian-U.S. Tensions,” July 2nd, 2012, http://www.fas.org/blog/pir/2012/07/02/adverse-consequences-of-iranian-u-s-tensions/) High oil prices have ….Canadian forests.2 high prices turn econ
Spano, 12—the winner of the MarketWatch competition to find the world’s next great investing columnist, is an investment advisor and founder of Bluemound Asset Management, LLC in Elm Grove, WI. His experience includes having studied economics and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, being a member of their Institute of World Affairs, founding an innovative online insurance broker and having worked at a leading wealth management firm (Kirk, “High oil prices could be an economic disaster,” March 5, 2012, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/high-oil-prices-could-be-an-economic-disaster-2012-03-05) There have been ….shortly afterwards. Nuclear war
ROYAL 10 Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense
Jedediah Royal, 2010, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215 Less intuitive is how ….-security debate and deserves more attention. High prices push Russia to the arctic
Schwartz, 12 (Daniel, “Russia, world's worst oil polluter, now drilling in Arctic,” September 24th, 2012, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/09/21/f-russia-arctic.html) ¶ Putin pushes northern development¶ … base by 2020. Nuclear war
Wallace and Staples 10 – Professor of Poli Sci @ University of British Columbia and President of the Rideau Institute Michael Wallace and Steven Staples, Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons, February 2010 What is certain, however, is that ….can be taken lightly. Pg. 7-9
Impact empirically denied—Russia’s economy is endemically weak and has been wrecked many times
Friedman 09 – Founder and CEO of STRATFOR, founder of the Center for Geopolitical Studies, former professor of political science, PhD in Government
(George, 7/2“The Russian Economy and Russian Power.” http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2009-141-11.cfm) Russia has been an ….great power in spite of that. |
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Advantage 1 - Politics Central Appalachia is the key battleground – Federal investment in wind there will facilitate a national political transition
Bailey 10 – Research and Policy Director @ Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Jason Bailey, “Start Appalachian Transition through Green Jobs Investments,” Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Aug 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9gxb8bm Most communities around the world possible elsewhere. Incentives will short-circuit the GOP rebellion against Obama and political compromise
Elk 09 - Union organizer and labor journalist who writes for Harper's Magazine, the American Prospect, the Huffington Post and In These Times. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, and NPR. Mike Elk, “Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia,” Campaign for America’s Future, August 27, 2009 - 4:40pm ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/mq62jx West Virginia shows us how Virginia has to offer us. Obama must lead on this issue to clear up misconceptions
Daily Kos 12 “How low will Obama go in Appalachia?,” Wed May 23, 2012 at 06:51 PM PDT, pg. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/23/1094336/-How-low-will-Obama-go-in-Appalachia Appalachia is not a very politically the electoral college than anything else. Only a demonstration of interest can overcome his Appalachia problem
Boyer 08 Peter J. Boyer “The Appalachian Problem” The New Yorker, October 6, 2008, pg. http://tinyurl.com/3qy524 Virginia Democrats knew, however, that, impressive as Obama’s n that part of the state.” Continued political gridlock will destroy our ability respond to our greatest challenges
Friedman 12 – NYT’s foreign-affairs Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman (Pulitzer Prize winner and member of the Pulitzer Prize Board), “We Need a Second Party,” New York Times, Published: February 11, 2012, pg. http://tinyurl.com/c8tw3fa You know how in Scrabble sometimes you look at grown-up debate. Tea party influence is increasing – It is the cause of political polarization
Penketh 12 - Freelance journalist Anne Penketh, “A moderate Romney returns as a hostage to the extremist right,” The National, Nov 1, 2012, pg. http://tinyurl.com/ap3tj9e Washington Post commentator Harold campaign mode. The political stalemate will compromise US power and our economic foundation
Kupchan 12 – Professor of International Affairs @ Georgetown University Dr. Charles Kupchan (Senior Fellow @ Council on Foreign Relations), “Grand Strategy: The Four Pillars of the Future,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #23, Winter 2012, pg. http://www.democracyjournal.org/23/grand-strategy-the-four-pillars-of-the-future.php?page=all Tectonic shifts in international affairs t progressives fully understand. The ensuing perception of weakness risks global security recalculations and war
Lieberthal and O'Hanlon 12 - Foreign policy scholars @ Brookings Institution Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal (Professor of Poli Sci @ University of Michigan) and Dr. Michael O'Hanlon (Lecturer of Poli Sci @ Princeton University), “The real national security threat: America's debt,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2012, pg. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ohanlon-fiscal-reform-20120703,0,1409615.story Drones, kill lists, computer is not reestablished. Miscalculated great power wars will be more likely – Multipolarity is inherently unstable
Khalilzad 11 – Counselor @ Center for Strategic and International Studies Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad (Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. PhD in international studies from the University of Chicago), "The Economy and National Security,” National Review Online, February 8, 2011 4:00 A.M., pg. http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/259024 Today, economic and fiscal Chinese hegemony and aggression. Conflicts will go nuclear – Their takeouts will not assume a rupture in the global order
Heisbourg 12 - Special Adviser @ Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique Dr. François Heisbourg (Chair of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy) ‘How Bad Would the Further Spread of Nuclear Weapons Be?,” Presented a preliminary version of this paper at a conference, "Reassessing Nuclear Nonproliferation's Key Premises," cohosted by NPEC and the Legatum Institute in London, Great Britain, November 3-4, 2011., Apr 04, 2012, pg. http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1171andtid=4 New’ lessons from a revisited war one with the other. ADVANTAGE 2: Sustainability
Wind power paves the way for it - Central Appalachia will be the model for the transition
Haltom 10 - Co-director of Coal River Muntain Watch Vernon Haltom, “Can a Wind Farm Transform Appalachia's Energy Future?,” Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Page 71-77 | Jul 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9e3fyr8 The communities of the Coal order to remain standing. Appalachia’s transition to wind power provides a workable model for sustainability and ecological restoration
Todd et al. 10 – Research Professor and Distinguished Lecturer of ecological design @ University of Vermont. Dr. John Todd (PhD in oceanography from the University of Michigan), Samir Doshi (Lecturer @ University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics), and Anthony McInnis (Doctoral candidate in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources @ University of Vermont), “Beyond Coal: A Resilient New Economy for Appalachia,” Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Page 45-52 | Aug 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/2g98kh2 The second stage includes term, the land will be reinhabited. Only the US can pave the way for global sustainable development
Dernbach 09 - Professor of Law @ Widener University Law School John C. Dernbach, “Chapter 1: Sustainable Developme and the United States,” Agenda for a Sustainable America, Edited By: John C. Dernbach, January 2009 The Rio agreements development. Pg. 3-4 We currently risk irreversible damage to the earth’s carrying capacity
Wilson 12 - Executive Director of the International Council for Science Steven Wilson (PhD in Chemistry from University of Bristol and Former Director of Earth Observation, Director of Science and Innovation, and Director of Strategy and Partnerships @ UK Natural Environment Research Council), “Science is key to our sustainable future,” Al Jazeera, Last Modified: 09 Jun 2012 15:41, pg. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/20126211211472368.html Paris, France - Scientific to rethink social and economic models. 1nc
Our survival hangs in the balance
Shahan 09 – Director/editor @ CleanTechnica and Planetsave Zachary Shahan, “Global Collapse, Human Survival and the Planet’s Boundaries, Eco Localizer, September 24, 2009, pg. http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/09/24/global-collapse-human-survival-the-planets-boundaries/ Global Environmental Collapse (9) chemical pollution Nothing outweighs – Outstripping our carrying capacity renders all efforts to solve all other problems futile
Farrell 09 Paul B. Farrell, The coming Population Wars: a 12-bomb equation,” Market Watch, September 29, 2009|pg. http://tinyurl.com/cwzxdld ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- So what's For capitalism, civilization, earth? Specifically, the Appalachia area is critical area of biodiversity and sustainability
McQuaid, 12— Washington-based journalist. He has written about mountaintop removal for Smithsonian magazine and Yale Environment 360(John, Finally, a Victory Against Mountaintop Removal, November 30th, 2012,
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/coal/2012/11/legal_case_against_mountaintop_removal_mining_big_coal_finally_pays_for.single.html Appalachian forests are an it may crack further. Federal action neccessary to ensure investors.
Sovacool 8 (Benjamin K., Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, part of the National University of Singapore. He is also a Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization. He has worked in advisory and research capacities at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security Program, Virginia Tech Consortium on Energy Restructuring, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Semiconductor Materials and Equipment International, and U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Change Technology Program. He is the co-editor with Marilyn A. Brown of Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths (2007) and the author of The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States (2008). He is also a frequent contributor to such journals as Electricity Journal, Energy and Environment, and Energy Policy, The Best of Both Worlds: Environmental Federalism and the Need for Federal Action on Renewable Energy and Climate Change, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 27 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 397) B. State Climate Change Policies
Similarly, the states have taken the benefits of both devolution and centralization at once. n331 Plan: The United States federal government should create a special category for Central Appalachia wind power in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program. Contention 3: We Solve
USDA special category solves
MACED 10 Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, “Economic Transition in Central Appalachia: Ideas for the Appalachian Regional Development Initiative” April 8, 2010 2. Expand local renewable program could be allocated for such investments. Pg. 8-11 National policy key --- state programs are constrained by lack of funds and coordination
Burdette 13 Whitney, "As economy changes, so does the shape of the Appalachian region," 1-3, http://www.statejournal.com/story/20496087/appalachian-regional-commission-boundaries-change Eller has studied the ARC for and creation of the war on poverty." Wind incentives are key and Appalachia is the test case
Zeller 10 TOM ZELLER Jr. “A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind,” New York Times, Published: August 14, 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/8ctubyz Critics say the practice, known as “ more utility-scale wind up there.” We successfully transition coal miners to wind farmers
Biggers 11 Jeff Biggers, “Roadmaps to New Power: Appalachian Transition Initiative Leads Coalfields into New Year--and New Era,” Huffington Post, Posted: January 3, 2011 10:33 AM, pg. http://tinyurl.com/86txoot Efforts need to be made on to get right. |
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Plan The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States.
Oil Advantage Advantage 1 is China
Tensions escalating in south china sea due to energy competition
Perlez 12—the chief diplomatic correspondent in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. She covers China and its foreign policy, particularly relations between the United States and China, and their impact on the Asian region.(Jane, “Dispute Flares Over Energy in South China Sea,” December 4th, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/world/asia/china-vietnam-and-india-fight-over-energy-exploration-in-south-china-sea.html?partner=rssandemc=rssand_r=0andpagewanted=print BEIJING — China and two of its neighbors, …. unfriendly.” Disputes will erupt into armed conflict
Goh 11 - Professor of International Relations @ Royal Holloway University of London Dr. Evelyn Goh, “Still Waters Run Deep in the South China Sea,” Pnyx: Comment on Global Security and Politics, Friday, September 9, 2011, pg. http://www.pnyxblog.com/pnyx/2011/9/9/still-waters-run-deep-in-the-south-china-sea.html Various claimants are engaged in …. pursuing their larger global interests. Current agreements aren't enough --- energy interests ensure conflict
Kurlantzick, 11—Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia, at Council on Foreign Relations (Joshua, “Growing U.S. Role in South China Sea,” October 11th, 2011, http://www.cfr.org/china/growing-us-role-south-china-sea/p26145) The Looming Problems The ASEAN-…Offshore Oil Corp. is also stepping up exploration. It will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm Neither the U.S. nor China has any interest in …. what kind of groundwork the U.S. and China can lay now. Extinction
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a … and that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies. China’s energy demands risks war with Japan over the Senkakus
Smith 12 - Senior Fellow for Japan Studies @ Council on Foreign Relations Sheila A. Smith, “Japan and the East China Sea Dispute,” Orbis, Summer 2012 The incident demonstrates the increasing … forefront of Japan’s domestic politics. Pg. 371 Senkakus will escalate—political changes
MacKinnon, 12 (Mark, Senior international correspondent for Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, “Dangerous moves in the East China Sea could bring Japan, China to armed conflict,” December 4th, 2012, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/dangerous-moves-in-the-east-china-sea-could-bring-japan-china-to-armed-conflict/article5904643/?page=2) The Japanese surveillance plane is an hour into ….” enter waters over which it claims sovereignty. Nuclear war
Tatlow 12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. “Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute.” The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.) BEIJING - It has all the ingredients of …. recovery in the United States." Four internal links—
Tech swaps get China on board
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781
To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture …. with little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Lays a framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php All these factors combined call into question the …. have to wait for a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha and Hu 07 – Professors of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are certainly …can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Oil production is key
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations
Competing Visions of Energy Security On the vexing … champions” while at the same time aggravating energy security fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Chinese influence in Central Asia undermines security in the region
Indeo 12 Fabio, Research Fellow in Geopolitics of conflicts at the University of Camerino in Italy, "The Rise of China in Central Asia," Heartland, 8-20, http://temi.repubblica.it/limes-heartland/the-rise-of-china-in-central-asia/1928 The combination of China’s …the weaker states, namely Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Causes nuclear war
Roger McDermott, 12/6/2011. Honorary senior fellow, Professor of politics and international relations, university of Kent at Canterbury and senior fellow in Eurasian military studies, Jamestown Foundation. “General Makarov Highlights the “Risk” of Nuclear Conflict,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38748andtx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=27andcHash=dfb6e8da90b34a10f50382157e9bc117. In the current election season the …. than the old dogs of the Cold War would wish to chew on. Warming Advantage Advantage 2 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental, 12 Donald R. Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology, 3-1-2012, "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, 17.2, EBSCO How do we know that global … unprepared and harmed by global climatic change when it threatens their survival. Neither can we as a society. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration And I also want to discuss one of … encourage you to visit the website, www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, including the …. challenge that the international community recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac Establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from … production are shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac Results in negative emissions
Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the …. of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian …. they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac Ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” 2-18, http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529 Marine life face some of …. life — the time to start slashing carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all
Ferguson 12 Editor for All Events Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html I came across a news report back in December …. imagined. The Russian report on Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html Recent research suggests that the size of …. to induce. We, as a society, are not.” Linking with EOR solves
Institute for 21st Century Energy 12 11-20 http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/020174_EI21_EnhancedOilRecovery_final.pdf ENVIRONMENTAL¶ ….imposing a government-mandated¶ price on carbon. The incentive solves
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) As the thinking goes, EOR could ….there. It's not clear to me what that is." Federal action key to ensure coherent regulatory regime
Brugato 11 – JD from Harvard Law School Thomas Brugato, “NOTE: THE PROPERTY PROBLEM: A SURVEY OF FEDERAL OPTIONS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION REPOSITORIES” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2011, 29 Va. Envtl. L.J. 305 The federal government has a variety of ….option fits into the overall sequestration plan. Current efforts not sufficient
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?” September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) A key carbon-cutting technology …. of CO2 isn't too steep," Melzer said. |
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Plan The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States. Oil Advantage Advantage 1 is China
Tensions escalating in south china sea due to energy competition
Perlez 12—the chief diplomatic correspondent in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. She covers China and its foreign policy, particularly relations between the United States and China, and their impact on the Asian region.(Jane, “Dispute Flares Over Energy in South China Sea,” December 4th, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/world/asia/china-vietnam-and-india-fight-over-energy-exploration-in-south-china-sea.html?partner=rssandemc=rssand_r=0andpagewanted=print BEIJING — China and two of its neighbors, Vietnam …cutting is really unfriendly.” Disputes will erupt into armed conflict
Goh 11 - Professor of International Relations @ Royal Holloway University of London Dr. Evelyn Goh, “Still Waters Run Deep in the South China Sea,” Pnyx: Comment on Global Security and Politics, Friday, September 9, 2011, pg. http://www.pnyxblog.com/pnyx/2011/9/9/still-waters-run-deep-in-the-south-china-sea.html Various claimants are engaged in serious … by the great powers pursuing their larger global interests. Current agreements aren't sufficient --- energy interests ensure conflict
Kurlantzick, 11—Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations (Joshua, “Growing U.S. Role in South China Sea,” October 11th, 2011, http://www.cfr.org/china/growing-us-role-south-china-sea/p26145) The Looming Problems The ASEAN-… Corp. is also stepping up exploration. It will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, “5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War,” The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm Neither the U.S. nor China has any interest …the U.S. and China can lay now. Nuclear winter
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?,” Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger … be working to encourage these policies. Relations solve all major problems
Zhou, 8, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges – NY -- Dr. Jinghao, Does China’s Rise Threaten the United States? Asian Perspective, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2008, pp. 171-182
Third, there are many common … and promoting world peace.
Now key --- leadership transitions make this a crucial time
Napach 12-27 Bernice, "US-China Relations Will Define Global Politics in 2013: The Economist," 12-27, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100341649/USChina_Relations_Will_Define_Global_Politics_in_2013_The_Economist The relationship between the world's … no doubt about it," says Franklin. Four internal links—
Tech swaps get China on board
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and MBA from Washington University), “A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China,” Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781
To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon … with little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Lays a framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), “For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration,” Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php All these factors combined call into …a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha and Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University and Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong and Hu Weixing, “Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington,” Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are … the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Oil production is key
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), “China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations,” New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations
Competing Visions of Energy Security On the vexing challenge of energy security there … energy security fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Chinese influence in Central Asia undermines security in the region
Indeo 12 Fabio, Research Fellow in Geopolitics of conflicts at the University of Camerino in Italy, "The Rise of China in Central Asia," Heartland, 8-20, http://temi.repubblica.it/limes-heartland/the-rise-of-china-in-central-asia/1928 The combination of China’s uninterrupted …., namely Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Causes nuclear war
Roger McDermott, 12/6/2011. Honorary senior fellow, department of politics and international relations, university of Kent at Canterbury and senior fellow in Eurasian military studies, Jamestown Foundation. “General Makarov Highlights the “Risk” of Nuclear Conflict,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38748andtx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=27andcHash=dfb6e8da90b34a10f50382157e9bc117. In the current election season the Russian media has … would wish to chew on. Warming Advantage Advantage 2 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Prothero 12 Donald R. Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology, 3-1-2012, "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, 17.2, EBSCO How do we know that global warming is real … survival. Neither can we as a society. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration And I also want to discuss one … we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), “ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE,” University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, including …recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac Establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz and Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz and Scott W. Tinker “Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from expanded … for large-scale commercial CCS. Application to biomass creates negative emissions
Ricci and Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans and Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) and Sandrine Selosse, “Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage,” Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion… design of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Independently, CCS is carbon negative
Schiffman 13 Richard, author for the Earth Island Journal, quotes Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia mathematical economist, lead author of the Nobel Prize winning 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "Carbon Capture Technologies that Could Help Fight Climate Change," 1-31, http://truth-out.org/news/item/14260-carbon-capture-technologies-that-could-help-fight-climate-change A power plant … if we don’t act now.” Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) “Conquering Climate Change,” The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian extinction, … actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac Ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, “Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred” 2-18, http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/#more-19529 Marine life face some of the worst impacts. …. carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all
Ferguson 12 Michael, “Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?,” August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html I came across a news report back in December that stopped me in my tracks.2 Russian scientists studying the Siberian Arctic Shelf found vast plumes of methane pouring from the ocean … Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack “Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive,” 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html Recent research suggests that the size of the …. We, as a society, are not.” Speed of warming means no adaption
Washington and Cook, 11—*an environmental scientist of 35 years’ experience. His PhD ‘The Wilderness Knot’ was in social ecology. the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He studied physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. After the graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honors year and created the website skepticalscience.com (Haydn and John, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand, Published in 2011 by Earthscan, Page 34) The next concern is the speed of … in peril’. Solvency Contention 3 is solvency
Linking with EOR solves
Institute for 21st Century Energy 12 11-20 http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/020174_EI21_EnhancedOilRecovery_final.pdf ENVIRONMENTAL¶ …mandated¶ price on carbon. Federal action key to ensure coherent regulatory regime
Brugato 11 – JD from Harvard Law School Thomas Brugato, “NOTE: THE PROPERTY PROBLEM: A SURVEY OF FEDERAL OPTIONS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION REPOSITORIES” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2011, 29 Va. Envtl. L.J. 305 The federal government has a variety of .. how that option fits into the overall sequestration plan. Emissions increasing
Rogers and Harvey 12 Simon and Fiona, "Global carbon emissions rise is far bigger than previous estimates," 6-21, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/21/global-carbon-emissions-record Carbon dioxide emissions have … previously been thought. |
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Advantage Three: Energy Security Trust
Obama can’t get it without supporting more oil drilling. EST paves the way for biofuels RandD
Taylor 2/13/13 PHIL TAYLOR, “Obama's energy trust doesn't include expanded drilling,” Greenwire, Posted: Feb 13, 2013, pg. http://rlch.org/news/obamas-energy-trust-doesnt-include-expanded-drilling President Obama's proposed … it's disappointing." Obama’s support is key. It’s overcomes GOP skepticism
Hannah 2/19/13 - Senior fellow @ Foundation for Defense of Democracies, John Hannah, "In Obama's waning America, a glimmer of hope on energy security,” Foreign Policy, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 11:19 AM, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9wvvkr5 The weight of the argument … meet him half way. Getting the trust will be a tricky balancing act. Obama can’t ignore the interests of oil
Kemp 2/15/13 - Reuters market analyst John Kemp, “COLUMN-Obama's Sphinx-like energy policy” Reuters, Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:26am EST, pg. http://tinyurl.com/ajl6xbo The trust fund idea has … to ignore. (Editing by Pravin Char) Federal RandD makes algae commercially viable and environmentally sustainable. Prefer the NRC peer-reviewed study over their bias speculations
Stolte 12 Daniel Stolte, “Algal Biofuel is Currently Unsustainable, but Technology can Change That,” Oil Price.com| Sun, 11 November 2012 00:00, pg. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Biofuels/Algal-Biofuel-is-Currently-Unsustainable-but-Technology-can-Change-That.html
“Algal biofuels are not quite … before completion. Algae make biofuels sustainable. It ends the tradeoff with food production
Sunderland 2/6/13 Faye Sunderland “Sea algae could power our cars,” The Green Car Website, http://www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/02/06/sea-algae-could-power-our-cars/ The answer to the …grow other things.” US limits on food production places the global food system at risk. Shortages will shatter confidence in the grain market
Brown 11 - Founder of the Worldwatch Institute LESTER R. BROWN (founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute) “The New Geopolitics of Food,” Foreign Policy, | MAY/JUNE 2011, pg. http://tinyurl.com/3joqfkv But that is not happening. Instead, as … have started to unravel. US food-based biofuels risk civilizational collapse. The new geopolitics of food risks global hunger wars
Vidal 12 John Vidal, “Food scarcity: the timebomb setting nation against nation,” The Observer, Saturday 13 October 2012 14.37 EDT, pg. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/oct/14/food-climate-change-population-water Hunnicutt and Banda are linked … is to save civilisation itself." CO2 EOR is the perfect carrot for Obama. It has broad Republican support
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), “Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions,” Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration At a time of economic struggle, … the environment. Algae key to the chemical industry
Fell 13 Andy, UC-Davis, "Algae pump out raw material for chemists," 1-9, http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/algae-pump-out-raw-material-for-chemists/ In a step toward replacing … plastics, and fuels. Chemical industry prevents extinction
Baum ’99 (Rudy M., CandEN Washington, Chemical and Engineering News, Millennium Special Report, 12-6, http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html) Here is the fundamental … and not-so-basic needs. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge:
Contention 1 Contention ONE: Climate Justice The AEP decision closed the door on compensatory damages for those seeking climate justice.
Burkett 11 - Professor of Law @ University of Hawaii Maxine Burkett, “Climate Justice and the Elusive Climate Tort,” The Yale Law Journal Online, 121 Yale L.J. Online 115 (2011), pg. http://yalelawjournal.org/2011/09/13/burkett.html. The Supreme Court’s decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (AEP) …multi-layered commitment to rectifying, at least in part, the losses of the climate vulnerable. Using damages to support domestic clean development supports indigenous sustainable energy. This builds institutions dedicated to climate justice.
Burkett 08 - Professor of law @ University of Colorado Maxine Burkett, “Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism,” Buffalo Law Review, 56 Buffalo L. Rev. 169, April 2008 There are as many possibilities in rural communities.247 Native wind projects, for … and advanced with the support of an independent, firmly established market infrastructure—the dCDM. Clean development institutions establish a climate justice model for just transition.
Without this model, green development leaves out the marginalized communities at the greatest risk from climate change.
Burkett 08 - Professor of law @ University of Colorado Maxine Burkett, “Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism,” Buffalo Law Review, 56 Buffalo L. Rev. 169, April 2008 The dCDM is the best, just solution in the face of none.281 … an adaptive response that does not reinforce inequality, but instead takes the first, crucial step to charting a path in which all solutions, however flawed, may be just. Pg. 237-244 Climate justice is needed to ensure planetary survival.
Barlow 10 - National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and founder of the Blue Planet Project. Maude Barlow (A former U.N. Senior Water Advisor), “Advice for Water Warriors,” Yes! Magazine, posted Nov 08, 2010, pg. http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/advice-for-water-warriors Half the tropical forests in the world—the lungs of our ecosystems—… the equitable and just sharing of their bounty. It also means the recovery of an old concept called the Commons.
Calling on the US judiciary aids international commitments to climate justice.
Long 08 – Professor of Law @ Florida Coastal School of Law Andrew Long, “International Consensus and U.S. Climate Change Litigation,” 33 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L. and Pol'y Rev. 177, Volume 33 | Issue 1 Article 4 (2008) - Enhancing U.S. International Leadership
In a time of unfavorable global opinion toward the United States, … approach has the advantage of building a significant bridge over the dualist divide between domestic and international law without ripping the Court's analysis from traditional, dualist moorings. Pg. 212-216
Contention 2
Contention TWO: Adaptation
We need a legal model capable of promoting both climate mitigation and adaptation. We must adapt our legal reasoning if we want to marshal the resources needed to cope.
Craig 10 - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs @ Florida State University Robin Kundis Craig, “'Stationarity is Dead' - Long Live Transformation: Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation,” Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2010, pp. 9-75 Climate change is creating positive feedback loops that may irreversibly … we can marshal energy and resources into actions that will help humans, species, and ecosystems cope with the changes that are coming. Pg. 13-16
Compensation for climate adaptation is critical. Warming induced scarcity produces starvation and drought – billions of people will suffer.
Marlow and Barcelos 11 - Co-Executive Directors of the Three Degrees Project at the University of Washington School of Law Jennifer Marlow (JD from the University of Washington) and Jennifer Krencicki Barcelos (JD from the University of Washington), “Global Warring and the Permanent Dry: How heat threatens human security in a warmer world,” Seattle Journal of Environmental Law, 2011 Volume 1 Issue 19 2. Food and Water
Coupled with heat-related dangers to public health, the warmer world is … also by potentially disruptive scarcities—depletion of minerals; desertification of land; pollution or overuse of water; weather changes that kill fish and farms.”51 pg. 28-29
Public nuisance compensation is a crucial first step for adaptation strategies that avoid cultural genocide. Compensation demands polluters take responsibility for the unjust distribution of environmental harms. Abate 10 - Professor of Law @ Florida A and M University Randall S. Abate, “Public Nuisance Suits for the Climate Justice Movement: The Right Thing and the Right Time, Washington Law Review, Vol. 85 Iss. 197 B. Incorporating Climate Justice Principles into the Post-Kyoto Regime
As Kivalina-like litigation theories gain support in the courts in the ….toward increased responsibility for the public and private entities that are principally responsible for those harms. Pg. 247-252 Contention 3 Text: The United States federal judiciary should provide public nuisance compensation to climate justice claimants in the form of domestic clean development mechanism grants for wind power. Contention Three: Climate Justice Praxis
Voting aff is a form of demosprudence – a legal bridge between aggrieved communities and existing institutions. Becoming role-literate participants in legal debates builds public momentum for social change.
Lani GUINIER Law @ Harvard ‘9 “BEYOND LEGISLATURES: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF DEMOSPRUDENCE” 89 B.U. L. Rev. 539 2009 p. 544-554 In her Ledbetter dissent and subsequent remarks, Justice …actors and other role-literate participants, the recursive nature of that discourse would be difficult to capture in national survey instruments.10 8
Nuisance compensation shifts both social and legal norms. The Historical success of clean air and water litigation proves pressure generated by advocacy for the plan is useful even without immediate implementation.
Robert PERCIVAL Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program @ Maryland ’12 “Of Coal, Climate and Carp: Reconsidering the Common Law of Interstate Nuisance” U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-12 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2017071
p. 36-40 The historical record demonstrates that states invoking the common …used its equitable powers to stop environmentally destructive actions.
Nuisance damages change destructive consumption and energy generation patterns. The plan shifts the burden for climate action onto those most responsible for climate change.
Cutting and Cahoon 08 - Professor of Environmental Studies @ UNC Wilmington and Professor of Biology and Marine Biology @ UNC Wilmington Robert H. Cutting and Lawrence B. Cahoon, “"The 'Gift' that Keeps on Giving: Global Warming Meets the Common Law," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, 10 VJEL 109, 2008, Volume 10 B. Litigation
Much of the litigation of the past few years focused on federal … creative solutions to the problems associated with GHG emissions. Linking climate justice with changes in community energy production provides a starting point for challenging lack of representation, compensation, and broader social injustice.
Sustainable energy praxis reconstructs the unjust institutions and patterns of consumption responsible for climate injustice.
David SCHLOSBERG Poli Sci @ Northern Arizona ’13 “Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a Discourse” Environmental Politics 22 (1) p. 46-50 Many climate justice groups began not from ideal notions of social justice, … innovation is as broad and informative as it is in environmental justice. Critique of the racial state shouldn’t preclude appeals to state-based politics. Their alternative is determinantal for both research and strategy.
George LIPSITZ Black Studies @ UC SB ‘4 “Abolition democracy and global justice” Comparative American Studies 2 (3) p. 271-276 Abstract As new social relations produce new kinds of … useful and generative models from the past, while recent studies by Melani McAlister, Lise Waxer, Roderick Ferguson and Clyde Woods pose bold and exciting challenges in the present (Ferguson, 2004; McAlister, 2001; Waxer, 2002; Woods, 1998). Demands for legal accountability for climate change are useful for social movements even when they don’t succeed in immediately changing state behavior.
Hari OSOFSKY Law @ Oregon ‘7 CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION AS
PLURALIST LEGAL DIALOGUE? 43 A Stan. J. Int'l L. 181 2007 p. 216-219 Environmental rights petitions to regional and international human … struggles to engage the complex interrelationships of multiple normative communities.
Just sustainability and redistribution of climate harms unites research and activism. The legal mechanisms for redistribution advocated by the plan provide a frame for integrating excluded communities in the Global North and South.
Duncan MCLAREN Sustainable Development Unit, Friends of the Earth, London ‘3 in Just sustainabilities: development in an unequal world Eds. Julian Agyeman, Robert Doyle Bullard, Bob Evans p. 34-35 Environmental space (sustainability with equity) and … create a framework of civic accountability for multinational and other corporations, and international institutions. Starting point of political race is more effective than a focus on anti-blackness. Our framework respects identity boundaries and better generates cross-race coalitions.
Lani GUINIER Law @ Harvard AND Gerald TORRES Law @ Texas ‘2 The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy p. 11-14 Race, for us, is like the miner's canary. 1 Miners often carried a … of black people-is nevertheless at the heart of our argument. Justice-based vision for climate adaptation re-politicizes issues of distribution.
Lauren RICKARDS Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research and the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne ’10 “Governing the future under climate change: contested visions of climate change adaptation” VCCCAR Scenarios for Climate Adaptation Working Paper p.16 Scenarios are a means of developing and … and political character of process and, in particular, the question of whose values count via who participates. |
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AT: Adaptation Framing Bad
No link the aff doesn’t make a distinction between us versus the world. No link—we are a challenge message. The 1AC is a challenge message not a threat message. That increases salience, collective action, and creative problem-solving.
Robert BRULLE Sociology and Envt’l Science @ Drexel ’10 “From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement” Environmental Communication 4 (1) p. 92 From Identity to Challenge Campaigns One of the most … also be strongly motivating (O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole, 2009, p. 376; Witte and Allen, 2000).
Combining adaptation and mitigation framing stops passivity and stasis.
Lauren RICKARDS Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research and the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne ’10 “Governing the future under climate change: contested visions of climate change adaptation” VCCCAR Scenarios for Climate Adaptation Working Paper p. 3-4 The difference between adaptation as “fitting to” or “fitting with” the … illustrates what O’Brien et al. (2009) mean when they call for ‘a larger conceptualization of “we” that extends responsibilities to others (people, species and ecosystems)’ in the face of climate change (p. 12). We discuss the implications of this more ambitious framing of “good adaptation” further below. Climate Justice Advantage
Changing growth to solve climate change works – radical social change won’t.
Manuel Arias-MALDONADO Poli Sci @ Malaga ’12 Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature p. 116-120 In principle, public opinion should just rely on science- hence the activity of the …of a threat sounds like a cliche. But it happens to be true - or, to be more accurate, it can be made true. A recent study by 22 scientists concurs. It improves on previous models and concludes that we are causing rapid and irreversible critical transitions
Barnosky et al 12 - Professor of Integrative Biology @ UC Berkeley Dr. Anthony D. Barnosky (Professor of Paleontology @ UC Berkeley), Dr. Elizabeth A. Hadly (Professor of Biology @ Stanford University, Jordi Bascompte (Integrative Ecology Group @ Estación Biológica de Doñana) Eric L. Berlow (TRU NORTH Labs), James H. Brown (Professor of Biology @ The University of New Mexico), Mikael Fortelius (Professor of Geosciences and Geography @ University of Helsinki), Wayne M. Getz (Professor of Environmental Science@ UC Berkeley), John Harte (Professor of Environmental Science@ UC Berkeley) Alan Hastings (Professor of Environmental Science@ UC Davis) Pablo A. Marquet (Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Neo D. Martinez (Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab) Arne Mooers (Professor of Biological Sciences @ Simon Fraser University, Peter Roopnarine (California Academy of Sciences), Geerat Vermeij (Professor of Geology @ UC Davis) John W. Williams (Professor of Geography @ University of Wisconsin), Rosemary Gillespie (Professor of Environmental Science@ UC Berkeley) Justin Kitzes (Professor of Environmental Science@ UC Berkeley), Charles Marshall (Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley), Nicholas Matzke(Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley), David P. Mindell (Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry @ UC San Francisco), Eloy Revilla (Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana) and Adam B. Smith (Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden) “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere,” Nature 486, (07 June 2012) pg. 52–58 Humans now dominate Earth, changing it in ways that … global-scale forcings including (but not limited to) climate change have emerged as a direct result of human activities. K Turns their epistemology/methodology claims: Activists, lawyers, and academics using pluralistic vocabularies is more politically effective. Mobilization, mainstream institutional change, and legal-doctrinal changes create positive feedbacks not tradeoffs. s
Sherry CABLE Sociology @ Tennessee ET AL ‘2 “Different Voices, Different Venues: Environmental Racism Claims by Activists, Researchers, and Lawyers” Human Ecology Review 9 (1) p. 36-38 Acronyms clarified – Turner Some progress has been made since the earliest days of the … among the parties, the new, polylingual voices of the EJM will more successfully promote thinking globally while acting locally. Perm -- Starting point of political race is more effective than a focus on anti-blackness. Our framework respects identity boundaries and better generates cross-race coalitions.
Lani GUINIER Law @ Harvard AND Gerald TORRES Law @ Texas ‘2 The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy p. 11-14 Race, for us, is like the miner's canary. 1 Miners often carried a canary into the mine …. And while we moved to the more inclusive nomenclature of political race, blackness-and the experience of black people-is nevertheless at the heart of our argument. We should not abandon the category of universal humanity. Anti-slavery abolition and its intersections with critiques of gendered citizenship drew on universal humanity as a source of solidarity.
Paul GILROY Anthony Giddens Prf. of Social Theory @ London School of Economics ‘9 Race and the Right to be Human p. 6-11 At times, the movement against slavery was extended into … difference be set aside in favour of a more substantive human commonality. It promised an alternative conception of kinship that could deliver a world purged of injustice in general and racial hierarchy in particular. |
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Advantage 1 is Decentralization Federal preemption is the central issue of federalism – the plan stops decentralization
YOUNG 08 Professor of Law, Duke Law School Ernest A. Young, SYMPOSIUM: ORDERING STATE-FEDERAL RELATIONS THROUGH FEDERAL PREEMPTION DOCTRINE: EXECUTIVE PREEMPTION, Special Issue 2008, Northwestern University Law Review, 102 Nw. U.L. Rev. 869 Preemption of state … of federalism. Federal preemption key
EBERHARDT 06 B.A., 1998, Swarthmore (Biology); M.F.S., 2001, Harvard; J.D. Candidate, 2006, New York University School of Law. Senior Notes Editor, 2005-2006, New York University Environmental Law Journal Robert W. Eberhardt, FEDERALISM AND THE SITING OF OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FACILITIES, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 14 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 374 In addition to Congress, state … wind energy development. Domestically – undermining environmental federalism key to disaster response coordination – they are inevitable – only federal hierarchy insures a proper response to natural and human disasters
GRIFFIN 07 Rutledge C. Clement, Jr. Professor in Constitutional Law, Tulane Law School Stephen M. Griffin, Stop Federalism Before It Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina, Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, Volume 21, Issue 2 Volume 21, Spring 2007, Issue 2 Article 6 And so it is still the case that ….National Academy of Sciences. Poor response allows escalation to human extinction
SID-AHMED 05 Managing Editor for Al-Ahali Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, “The post-earthquake world”, Issue #724, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/op3.htm The year 2005 began with a …. imminent demise of humankind. Federal preparedness deters the use of bioweapons
Koblentz 04 – Doctoral candidate in Political Science @ MIT Gregory Koblentz, “Pathogens as Weapons: The International Security Implications of Biological Warfare,” International Security 28.3 (2003/04) 84-122edlee The second major difference between nuclear …. of an anticipated threat. 104 Bioterrorism coming now—no impediments to deployment
Glassman, 12 (James, “We're Letting Our Bioterrorism Defenses Down,” April 4th, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesglassman/2012/04/04/were-letting-our-bioterrorism-defenses-down/print/) A little over three years ago, a … said the Bio-Response Report Card. Keeping the casualties low is vital to prevent US nuclear and military retaliation
CONLEY 03 chief of the Systems Analysis Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia Lt. Col. Harry W. Conley, Air and Space Power Journal – Spring, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/spr03/conley.html The number of … whatever promises had been made.”48 AND bioweapons cause extinction
Singer 1— Clifford Singer, Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign Spring 2001, “Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?” The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm In recent years the fear of the …. may be in question when and if this is achieved. |
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Advantage 2 is Environment Offshore wind key to revitalize ocean ecosystems
ATTRILL 12 Director, Plymouth University Marine Institute Martin Attrill, Marine Renewable Energy: necessary for safeguarding the marine environment?. November 2012, http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/marine_renewable_energy.pdf Also it has to be recognised that … developments xlvi. Trawling destroys the oceans
VINSON 06 JD Candidate, Georgetown University Anna, “Deep Sea Bottom Trawling and the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape: A Test Case for Global Action,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Winter, 18 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 355 Every year an area of the … justifies the practice. extinction
Craig 3 - Associate Dean for Environmental Programs @ Florida State University Robin Kundis Craig, “ARTICLE: Taking Steps Toward Marine Wilderness Protection? Fishing and Coral Reef Marine Reserves in Florida and Hawaii,” McGeorge Law Review, Winter 2003, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Biodiversity and ecosystem … be unique in the world. Each additional extinction undermines resiliency
Zakaib 11 Gwyneth Dickey, Nature, “Overfishing hits all creatures great and small,” http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110503/full/news.2011.262.html Large fish species are … probability of collapsing." And, fixing the regulatory framework to incentivize offshore wind offsets enough emissions to slow catastrophic warming – extinction, methane release, diseases, crop yields, conflict multiplier
THALER 12 Visiting Professor of Energy Policy, Law and Ethics, University of Maine School of Law and School of Economics Jeff Thaler, FIDDLING AS THE WORLD BURNS: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE URGENTLY REQUIRES A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE PERMITTING OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS, Jeff Thaler University of Maine School of Law September 17, 2012 Environmental Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2148122 This is not an Article debating whether … nautical miles from shore—the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).135 |
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Advantage 3 is Strategic Partnership The US and Europe are diverging on issues of energy --- aff key to coordination to save the alliance.
Koryani, 11—Hungarian diplomat, former Undersecretary of State, foreign policy and energy expert. He is also the Deputy Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council of the United States (David Editor, Transatlantic Energy Futures, 2011, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/publications/books/Transatlantic_Energy_Futures/Transatlantic_Energy_Futures.pdf) What Brings Us Together...¶ … of the transatlantic partnership. Removing restrictions key to market coordination
Leone, 11—Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com (Steve, “For Offshore Wind to Thrive, Collaboration A Must,” July 28th, 2011, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/07/for-offshore-wind-to-thrive-collaboration-a-must) New Hampshire, USA -- If the European Wind Energy … cost down of deploying in deep water?” US-European partnership creates linkages and pools resources – accesses every impact
Stivachtis 10 – Director of International Studies Program @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute Dr. Yannis. A. Stivachtis (Professor of Poli Sci @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from Lancaster University), THE IMPERATIVE FOR TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION,” The Research Institute for European and American Studies, 2010, pg. http://www.rieas.gr/research-areas/global-issues/transatlantic-studies/78.html
There is no doubt that US-European … a rule-based international order does not obviate the need to act decisively against And, regulatory harmonization key to a US-EU FTA
Alden, 13—the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was project director for the CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy (Edward, “U.S.-EU FTA Talks Chart a New Path for Global Trade,” March 13th, 2013, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12787/u-s-eu-fta-talks-chart-a-new-path-for-global-trade) The negotiations will … it easier to tackle these issues. Saves the European economy and boosts global growth
Vale de Almeida, 13—the European Union ambassador to the United States (Joao, Why EU-US free trade agreement would benefit both sides, February 13th, 2013, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0213/Why-EU-US-free-trade-agreement-would-benefit-both-sides) Bringing down …democratic values. Eurozone collapse causes World War III
Gommes, 11 -- former Columbia Law Review senior editor
(Thomas, publisher of Periscope Post, former corporate lawyer, "Eurozone in crisis: The death of the euro could trigger World War III," 12-9-11, www.periscopepost.com/2011/12/eurozone-in-crisis-the-death-of-the-euro-could-trigger-world-war-iii/, accessed 10-23-12, ) Eurozone in crisis: The death … perceived slights. Economic decline causes war—strong statistical support.
Royal 10 — Jedidiah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, M.Phil. Candidate at the University of New South Wales, 2010 (“Economic Integration, Economic Signalling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer, Published by Emerald Group Publishing, ISBN 0857240048, p. 213-215) Less intuitive is how periods … presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. |
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Plan The United States federal government should determine that federal law precludes relevant state and local restrictions on offshore wind energy. 1AC: Solvency DOI has the authority --- removing state and local restrictions solves.
EBERHARDT 6 B.A., 1998, Swarthmore (Biology); M.F.S., 2001, Harvard; J.D. Candidate, 2006, New York University School of Law. Senior Notes Editor, 2005-2006, New York University Environmental Law Journal Robert W. Eberhardt, FEDERALISM AND THE SITING OF OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FACILITIES, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 14 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 374 Changes to regulatory …that fail to consider positive interstate spillovers. Reducing restrictions vital to investment
Zeller, 13—a senior writer covering a variety of topics, including poverty, energy policy and the environment. Before joining The Huffington Post, Tom spent more than 10 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times, where he covered numerous beats, including technology culture and policy, cybercrime, clean energy and the politics of climate change (Tom, “Cape Wind: Regulation, Litigation And The Struggle To Develop Offshore Wind Power In The U.S.” 2-23-13, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/cape-wind-regulation-liti_n_2736008.html) Acquiring the full … to navigate. |
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Won’t pass – don’t buy their lies
HAMILTON 2 – 28 – 13 Lamron Staff Writer – SUNY Geneso Bella Hamilton, On immigration reform, Obama and Congress must compromise, http://www.thelamron.com/opinion/on-immigration-reform-obama-and-congress-must-compromise-1.3001746 It is impossible to ignore the … it has been since 2009. Not unique—offshore wind now
Colman, 13 (Zack, “Senators reveal coastal energy revenue-sharing bill,” March 20th, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/289299-senators-reveal-coastal-energy-revenue-sharing-bill) Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) … wide-ranging coalition. DOI avoids the link – won’t hold the president responsible, he can dodge.
MENDELSON 10 Professor of Law – University of Michigan Law School Nina A. Mendelson, “Disclosing “Political” Oversight of Agency Decision Making,” Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, p.1127-1175, http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/108/7/mendelson.pdf Even if presidential … agencies. 188 NO PC now – winners-win. He needs one
THE HILL 3 – 20 – 13 Amie Parnes and Justin Sink, Obama honeymoon may be over, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/289179-obama-honeymoon-may-be-over The second-term honeymoon for … Still, Bonjean added, “It’s not looking so good right now.” Snowe and Collins turn
Bowes, 11 Offshore Wind is a Wise Investment http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/offshore-wind-is-a-wise-investment/
…to advance offshore wind energy. Key to the agenda
Harris and Fried, 12 ¶ Maine’s Political Warriors: Senators Snowe and Collins, ¶ Congressional Moderates in a Partisan Era ¶ Douglas B. Harris ¶ Loyola University Maryland ¶ Amy Fried ¶ University of Maine, http://nepsanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Maines_Political_Warriors.pdf
Moderates seem to be … as citizen-run‖ (Palmer, Taylor and LiBrizzi 1992, 9). No political capital
ROTHMAN 3 – 19 – 13 Editor at Mediaite Noah Rothman, Obama’s Spiraling Job Approval Ratings Complicate Negotiations With Congressional Republicans, http://www.mediaite.com/online/obamas-spiraling-job-approval-ratings-complicate-negotiations-with-congressional-republicans/ A number of polls released …term would prefer to be. |
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Natural gas prices will inevitably spike -- only wind provides long term fixed rate contract to hedge against volatility
Peirobon 3-13 Jim, partner at Pierobon and Partners LLC, co-managed the energy and environmental practice at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, served as VP-Market Development and Chief Marketing Officer of Standard Solar, Inc. and was the Chief Energy Writer at the Houston Chronicle, "Is Wind Energy a Cost-Effective Hedge Against Rising Natural Gas Prices?," http://theenergycollective.com/jimpierobon/197561/wind-power-could-be-cost-effective-hedge-against-rising-natural-gas-prices That’s the conclusion of a new report by …short- or mid-length terms. OSW lowers electricity prices.
Mitchell 3/5/13 Robert L., CEO Atlantic Grid Development, LLC, Presented at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Oversight Hearing on “America's Offshore Energy Resources: Creating Jobs, Securing America, and Lowering Prices" March 5, 2013 Lowering Energy Prices¶ Decades ago, land-… is a benefit that will be enjoyed by all ratepayers in that market. |
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1AC Advantage 1 is Decentralization Federal preemption is the central issue of federalism – the plan stops decentralization
YOUNG 08 Professor of Law, Duke Law School Ernest A. Young, SYMPOSIUM: ORDERING STATE-FEDERAL RELATIONS THROUGH FEDERAL PREEMPTION DOCTRINE: EXECUTIVE PREEMPTION, Special Issue 2008, Northwestern University Law Review, 102 Nw. U.L. Rev. 869 Preemption of state regulatory authority by national law is the central federalism issue of our
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of diverse governmental activities that march under the banner of executive agency action.
Federal administrative action is, in important ways, considerably more threatening to state autonomy
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Agency action thus evades both the political and the procedural safeguards of federalism. Federal preemption key
EBERHARDT 06 B.A., 1998, Swarthmore (Biology); M.F.S., 2001, Harvard; J.D. Candidate, 2006, New York University School of Law. Senior Notes Editor, 2005-2006, New York University Environmental Law Journal Robert W. Eberhardt, FEDERALISM AND THE SITING OF OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FACILITIES, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 14 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 374 In addition to Congress, state governments have responded to the potential of offshore wind
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to the Army Corps of Engineers for permission to build the facility. n20
Despite the interest in offshore wind energy, federal legislative reforms, the imminent MMS
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adequate consideration of the environmental benefits promised by increased offshore wind energy development. Domestically – undermining environmental federalism key to disaster response coordination – they are inevitable – only federal hierarchy insures a proper response to natural and human disasters
GRIFFIN 07 Rutledge C. Clement, Jr. Professor in Constitutional Law, Tulane Law School Stephen M. Griffin, Stop Federalism Before It Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina, Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, Volume 21, Issue 2 Volume 21, Spring 2007, Issue 2 Article 6 And so it is still the case that when natural disasters strike, the divided
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11, 2001 that set the latest round of disaster coordination in motion.
Suppose, however, that we don't have the luxury of taking the time to
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The reasons they were unprepared go to the heart of the constitutional order.
III. FEDERAL LESSONS
Unless we learn some lessons, Katrina will happen again. It may be a
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misleading because it has been supplemented and subtly altered by continuous institutional change.
The federal system as it exists today is our system, not that of the
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operation and we can decide to change it for good and sufficient reasons.
There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent us from doing better the next time
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, but on a sense of constitutional protocol, stood in the way.
Unfortunately, more than protocol stands in the way of preventing future disasters. Whether
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, and review by independent experts such as the National Academy of Sciences. Poor response allows escalation to human extinction
SID-AHMED 05 Managing Editor for Al-Ahali Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, “The post-earthquake world”, Issue #724, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/op3.htm The year 2005 began with a calamity, resulting not from conflicts between people but from an unprecedented natural disaster that has so far claimed over 155,000 lives, a figure that is expected to rise still more over the coming period. Is this Nature's reaction to the abuse it is suffering at the hands of the human race, its revenge on us for challenging its laws beyond acceptable limits?
The earthquake that struck deep under the Indian Ocean was the strongest in over a
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can we contain the earthquake's effects ecologically, meteorologically, economically and socially?
The contradiction between Man and Nature has reached unprecedented heights, forcing us to re
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between the various sections of the world community make that collective effort unrealisable?
The human species has never been exposed to a natural upheaval of this magnitude within
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to the end of its role as a nurturing place for human life.
Today, human conflicts have become less of a threat than the confrontation between Man and Nature. At least they are less likely to bring about the end of the human species. The reactions of Nature as a result of its exposure to the onslaughts of human societies have become more important in determining the fate of the human species than any harm it can inflict on itself.
Until recently, the threat Nature represented was perceived as likely to arise only in the long run, related for instance to how global warming would affect life on our planet. Such a threat could take decades, even centuries, to reach a critical level. This perception has changed following the devastating earthquake and tsunamis that hit the coastal regions of South Asia and, less violently, of East Africa, on 26 December.
This cataclysmic event has underscored the vulnerability of our world before the wrath of Nature
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now forced to live with the possibility of an imminent demise of humankind. Federal preparedness deters the use of bioweapons
Koblentz 04 – Doctoral candidate in Political Science @ MIT Gregory Koblentz, “Pathogens as Weapons: The International Security Implications of Biological Warfare,” International Security 28.3 (2003/04) 84-122edlee The second major difference between nuclear and biological weapons concerns the availability of defenses.
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can adopt precautionary measures to blunt the effectiveness of an anticipated threat. 104 Bioterrorism coming now—no impediments to deployment
Glassman, 12 (James, “We're Letting Our Bioterrorism Defenses Down,” April 4th, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesglassman/2012/04/04/were-letting-our-bioterrorism-defenses-down/print/) A little over three years ago, a commission of experts, established by Congress
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, dry-powdered anthrax,” said the Bio-Response Report Card. Keeping the casualties low is vital to prevent US nuclear and military retaliation
CONLEY 03 chief of the Systems Analysis Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia Lt. Col. Harry W. Conley, Air and Space Power Journal – Spring, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/spr03/conley.html The number of American casualties suffered due to a WMD attack may well be the
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be more than just a possibility, whatever promises had been made.”48 AND bioweapons cause extinction
Singer 1— Clifford Singer, Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign Spring 2001, “Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?” The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm In recent years the fear of the apocalypse (or religious hope for it)
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human family may be in question when and if this is achieved. Advantage 2 is Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Prothero 12 Donald R. Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology, 3-1-2012, "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, 17.2, EBSCO How do we know that global warming is real and primarily human caused? There
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change when it threatens their survival. Neither can we as a society. Fixing the regulatory framework to incentivize offshore wind offsets enough emissions to slow catastrophic warming – extinction, methane release, diseases, crop yields, conflict multiplier
THALER 12 Visiting Professor of Energy Policy, Law and Ethics, University of Maine School of Law and School of Economics Jeff Thaler, FIDDLING AS THE WORLD BURNS: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE URGENTLY REQUIRES A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE PERMITTING OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS, Jeff Thaler University of Maine School of Law September 17, 2012 Environmental Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2148122 This is not an Article debating whether twenty first century climate change is likely,
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we are to make sufficient and timely progress toward reduced fossil fuel reliance.
To best understand the urgency, Part II begins with a look at our current
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from resource-related conflicts resulting in more violence and displaced persons.10
Unfortunately, as the economic and health costs from fossil fuel emissions have grown,
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faster than since 1990— implementation of clean, renewable energy sources.15
Thus, Part III focuses on one promising technology to demonstrate the flaws in current
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of offshore wind energy to become a reality before it is too late.
II. OUR ENERGY USE AND ITS RESULTANT CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
A. Overview
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) trap heat in the atmosphere.24 The primary GHG
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as well as to the ecosystems upon which each depends for survival.28
In 1992, the U.S. signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the stated objective of which was:
To achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.29
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that it is “very likely”—at least 90% certain—that humans are responsible for most of the “unequivocal” increases in globally averaged temperatures of the previous fifty years.30
Yet in the twenty years since the UNFCCC, it also is unequivocal that GHG
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began in 1750, and the largest percentage increase since 2003.”34
In order to even have a fifty-fifty chance that the average global temperature
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C or 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”40
What are some of the growing economic, public health, and environmental costs to
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—a “hidden” number likely to be larger in the future.
What does the future hold for a carbon-stressed world? Most scientific analyses
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the global average, and the warming in the Arctic greater still.”51
For example, the NRC expects that each degree Celsius increase will produce double to
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while the Arctic Ocean ice cap disappears and Europe suffers greater droughts.56
To presently assess what a 5°C rise will mean, we must look
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undertaking the major regulatory reforms I recommend in Part IV of this Article.
B. Specific Climate Threats and Consequences - When Weather Extremes Increase
A 2011 IPCC Special Report predicted that:
It is virtually certain 99–100% probability that increases in the
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upward trends in extreme sea levels in extreme coastal high water levels.62
Similarly, a House of Representatives committee report (ACESA Report) found that “
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damages), and in October by Hurricane Sandy ($50 billion damages).66
The IPCC Synthesis identified impacts from growing weather hazards upon public health to include:
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cities, with more than 150,000 additional deaths by 2100.70
Weather extremes also threaten our national security, which is premised on stability. In 2007, the CNA Corporation’s report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change described climate change as a “threat multiplier for instability” and warned that:
Projected climate change poses a serious threat to America’s national security. The predicted effects of climate change over the coming decades include extreme weather events, drought, flooding, sea level rise, retreating glaciers, habitat shifts, and the increased spread of life-threatening diseases. These conditions have the potential to disrupt our way of life and to force changes in the way we keep ourselves safe and secure.71
The following year, in the first ever U.S. government analysis of climate change security threats, the National Intelligence Council issued an assessment warning, in part, that climate change could threaten U.S. security by leading to political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, and conflicts over water and other resources.72
2. When Frozen Water Melts
In 2007, the IPCC predicted that sea levels would rise by eight to twenty-four inches above current levels by 2100;73 since then, however, numerous scientists and studies have suggested that the 2007 prediction is already out-of-date and that sea levels will likely rise up to 1.4 meters (m), or 55 inches, given upwardly trending CO2 emissions.74 The 2009 ACESA Report found that rising sea levels are:
Already causing inundation of low-lying lands, corrosion of wetlands and beaches, exacerbation of storm surges and flooding, and increases in the salinity of coastal estuaries and aquifers. . . . Further, about one billion people live in areas within 75 feet elevation of today’s sea level, including many US cities on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, almost all of Bangladesh, and areas occupied by more than 250 million people in China.75
This year NASA’s Chief Scientist testified to Congress that two-thirds of sea level rise from the last three decades is derived from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the melting Arctic region; he then warned:
The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), an area about the
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exhibits great potential for substantial and relatively rapid contributions to sea level rise.
In Greenland, the situation is not as dramatic, since the bed that underlies most of the ice is not below sea level, and the potential for unabated retreat is limited to a few outlet glaciers. In Greenland, however, summer air temperatures are warmer and closer to ice’s melting point, and we have observed widespread accumulation of meltwater in melt ponds on the ice sheet surface.76
In the West Antarctic ice sheet region, glacier retreat appears to be widespread, as the air has “warmed by nearly 6°F since 1950.”77 As for Greenland’s ice sheet, it also is at greater risk than the IPCC had thought.
Recent studies with more complete modeling suggest that the warming threshold leading to an essentially ice-free state is not the previous estimate of an additional 3.1°C, but only 1.6°C. Thus, the 2°C target may be insufficient to prevent loss of much of the ice sheet and resultant significant sea level rise.78
The ACESA Report also identified the Arctic as “one of the hotspots of global
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-free in the late summer beginning sometime between 2020 and 2037.82
How is the Arctic’s plight linked to non-Arctic impacts? “The Arctic region arguably has the greatest concentration of potential tipping elements in the Earth system, including Arctic sea ice, the Greenland ice sheet, North Atlantic deep-water formation regions, boreal forests, permafrost and marine methane hydrates.”83 Additionally:
Warming of the Arctic region is proceeding at three times the global average . . . . Loss of Arctic sea ice has been tentatively linked to extreme cold winters in Europe . . . . Near complete loss of the summer sea ice, as forecast for the middle of this century, if not before, will probably have knock-on effects for the northern mid-latitudes, shifting the jet streams and storm tracks.84
Since 1980, sea levels have been rising three to four times faster than the global average between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts.85 “Past and future global warming more than doubles the estimated odds of ‘century’ or worse floods occurring within the next 18 years” for most coastal U.S. locations.86
Although land-based glacier melts are not major contributors to sea level rise,
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and western North America and Scandinavia by 2020 and globally by 2080.89
Climate change thus increases food insecurity by reducing yields of grains, such as corn and wheat, through increased water scarcity and intensification of severe hot conditions, thereby causing corn price volatility to sharply increase.90 Globally, the number of people living in “severely stressed” river basins will increase “by one to two billion people in the 2050s. About two-thirds of global land area is expected to experience increased water stress.”91
3. When Liquid Water Warms
Over the past century, oceans, which cover 70% of the Earth’s surface
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—species that are also are being harmed by the oceans’ warming.100
Extinctions from climate change also are expected to be significant and widespread. The IPCC
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100 times faster than the rate at which many species can adapt.105
4. When Land Dries Out
The warming trends toward the Earth’s poles and higher latitudes are threatening people not just
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emissions, we cannot trap or prevent permafrost carbon emissions at the source.
Similarly, forests, which “cover about 30% of the Earth’s land surface
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recently suffered two ‘once a century’ droughts just five years apart.”115
Climate change also is exacerbating the geographic spread and intensity of insect infestations. For example:
In British Columbia . . . the mountain pine beetle extended its range north and has destroyed an area of soft-wood forest three times the size of Maryland, killing 411 million cubic feet of trees—double the annual take by all the loggers in Canada. Alaska has also lost up to three million acres of old growth forest to the pine beetle.116
Over the past fifteen years the spruce bark beetle extended its range into Alaska, where it has killed about 40 million trees more “than any other insect in North America’s recorded history.”117 The drying and burning forests, and other increasingly dry landscapes, also are causing “flora and fauna to move to higher latitudes or to higher altitudes in the mountains.”118
The human and environmental costs from failing to promptly reduce dependence on carbon-dioxide
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fossil fueled GHGs near major American and global population centers is offshore wind. III. THE OFFSHORE WIND POWER PERMITTING AND LEASING OBSTACLE COURSE
A. Overview of Technology and Attributes
As noted in Part I, offshore wind energy projects have the potential to generate
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Massachusetts and Block Island in Rhode Island would likewise be shallowwater installations.124
In deeper water, it is not economically feasible to affix a rigid structure to the sea floor, and floating platforms are envisioned. The three concepts shown below have been developed for floating platform designs, each of which is tethered but not built into the seabed.125
Each design uses a different method for achieving static stability, and some small pilot
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efforts to mitigate the many damaging human and economic impacts of climate change.
B. Federal and State Jurisdiction
U.S. jurisdiction over the ocean and seafloor extends from the coast 200
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200 nautical miles from shore—the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).135 Advantage 3 is Strategic Partnership The US and Europe are diverging on issues of energy --- aff key to coordination to save the alliance.
Koryani, 11—Hungarian diplomat, former Undersecretary of State, foreign policy and energy expert. He is also the Deputy Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council of the United States (David Editor, Transatlantic Energy Futures, 2011, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/publications/books/Transatlantic_Energy_Futures/Transatlantic_Energy_Futures.pdf) What Brings Us Together...¶ Transatlantic cooperation is key to addressing all the above challenges
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strong conviction in the enduring prominence¶ and necessity of the transatlantic partnership. Removing restrictions key to market coordination
Leone, 11—Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com (Steve, “For Offshore Wind to Thrive, Collaboration A Must,” July 28th, 2011, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/07/for-offshore-wind-to-thrive-collaboration-a-must) New Hampshire, USA -- If the European Wind Energy Association projections prove accurate
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. How do you bring the cost down of deploying in deep water?” US-European partnership creates linkages and pools resources – accesses every impact
Stivachtis 10 – Director of International Studies Program @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute Dr. Yannis. A. Stivachtis (Professor of Poli Sci @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from Lancaster University), THE IMPERATIVE FOR TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION,” The Research Institute for European and American Studies, 2010, pg. http://www.rieas.gr/research-areas/global-issues/transatlantic-studies/78.html
There is no doubt that US-European relations are in a period of transition
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rule-based international order does not obviate the need to act decisively against And, regulatory harmonization key to a US-EU FTA
Alden, 13—the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was project director for the CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy (Edward, “U.S.-EU FTA Talks Chart a New Path for Global Trade,” March 13th, 2013, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12787/u-s-eu-fta-talks-chart-a-new-path-for-global-trade) The negotiations will carry much symbolic weight as well. The economic boost is anticipated
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the U.S. could make it easier to tackle these issues. Saves the European economy and boosts global growth
Vale de Almeida, 13—the European Union ambassador to the United States (Joao, Why EU-US free trade agreement would benefit both sides, February 13th, 2013, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0213/Why-EU-US-free-trade-agreement-would-benefit-both-sides) Bringing down stubborn tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade and investment and aligning
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, it serves the interests of the world – and promotes democratic values. Eurozone collapse causes World War III
Gommes, 11 -- former Columbia Law Review senior editor
(Thomas, publisher of Periscope Post, former corporate lawyer, "Eurozone in crisis: The death of the euro could trigger World War III," 12-9-11, www.periscopepost.com/2011/12/eurozone-in-crisis-the-death-of-the-euro-could-trigger-world-war-iii/, accessed 10-23-12, ) Eurozone in crisis: The death of the euro could trigger World War III The
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solution to problems, or at minimum an acceptable response to perceived slights. Economic decline causes war—strong statistical support.
Royal 10 — Jedidiah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, M.Phil. Candidate at the University of New South Wales, 2010 (“Economic Integration, Economic Signalling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer, Published by Emerald Group Publishing, ISBN 0857240048, p. 213-215) Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. US-EU leadership key to assuage energy insecurity issues
Lawson et al., 9—a former General and former deputy commander in chief, Headquarters United States European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany (“A shared Vision for Energy and Climate Change; Establishing a Common Transatlantic Agenda,” May 28th-29th, http://www.acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/65/AtlanticCouncil-USEUEnergy-Rev4.pdf) If the challenges facing the transatlantic communit¶ y were easily resolved they would be
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. Energy security remains¶ a global as well as a transatlantic concern. Offshore wind solves energy demand in the mediterranean
Gaudiosi and Borri, 10 (Gaetano and Claudio, 2010, “Offshore wind energy in the mediterranean countries,”http:www.cder.dz/download/smee2010_19.pdf) Future increase of energy demand of South Mediterranean countries,¶ decarbonisation of electricity,¶ particularly
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EU-Nostrum and of 2006 OME-MAP¶ Projects 9. And, Mediterranean conflict escalates
Zhukov 3-20 Yuri M., "Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea," http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139069/yuri-m-zhukov/trouble-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-sea?page=show In recent years, resource disputes in the South China Sea have made headlines across
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and has sent its own exploration vessels to disputed waters, threatening to drill on behalf of Turkish Cypriots in the Aphrodite field -- which lies partly within
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climate of perpetual mistrust and uncertainty, such provocations can easily invite retaliation. Plan The United States federal government should determine that federal law precludes relevant state and local restrictions on offshore wind energy. 1AC: Solvency DOI has the authority --- removing state and local restrictions solves.
EBERHARDT 6 B.A., 1998, Swarthmore (Biology); M.F.S., 2001, Harvard; J.D. Candidate, 2006, New York University School of Law. Senior Notes Editor, 2005-2006, New York University Environmental Law Journal Robert W. Eberhardt, FEDERALISM AND THE SITING OF OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FACILITIES, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 14 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 374 Changes to regulatory regimes that govern the use of submerged lands likely will play a
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environmental benefits promised by would-be developers of offshore wind energy facilities.
States generally have demonstrated an ability to consider horizontal spillovers in their policies towards offshore
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aggressive than the federal government in attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. n189
In the future, if states definitively show inattention to positive horizontal spillovers, then
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opportunities to consult with FERC on safety concerns related to pending applications. n191
Section 311 clearly illustrates the ability for federal legislation to strip states of regulatory authority
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wind energy facilities, federal legislation akin to Section 311 would be justified.
Conclusion
The growing general interest in wind energy development and the dispute surrounding Cape Wind has
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this Note attempts to begin a discussion about how issues of federalism will influence and should inform the environmental regulation of offshore wind energy development. As a descriptive
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that the state regulatory regimes develop that fail to consider positive interstate spillovers. Reducing restrictions vital to investment
Zeller, 13—a senior writer covering a variety of topics, including poverty, energy policy and the environment. Before joining The Huffington Post, Tom spent more than 10 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times, where he covered numerous beats, including technology culture and policy, cybercrime, clean energy and the politics of climate change (Tom, “Cape Wind: Regulation, Litigation And The Struggle To Develop Offshore Wind Power In The U.S.” 2-23-13, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/cape-wind-regulation-liti_n_2736008.html) Acquiring the full array of government permits and sign-offs -- a byzantine process
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fewer and fewer project developers of any kind have the wherewithal to navigate. Current framework dooms offshore wind
SCHROEDER 10 J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2010. M.E.M., Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2004; B.A., Yale University, 2003 Erica Schroeder, COMMENT: Turning Offshore Wind On, October, 2010, California Law Review, 98 Calif. L. Rev. 1631 In spite of the impressive growth in the U.S. wind industry,
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. n16 The nation has failed to take advantage of this promising resource.
This failure can be ascribed in part to the unevenly balanced distribution of the costs
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, and inadequate attention has been paid to its wide-ranging benefits.
The Cape Wind project in Massachusetts is a stark example of how local forces have
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the impetus that offshore wind power needs for success in the United States. Solving regulatory confusion is necessary and sufficient
POWELL 12 J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law, 2013; B.A. Environmental Economics, Colgate University, 2007 Timothy H. Powell, REVISITING FEDERALISM CONCERNS IN THE OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY IN LIGHT OF CONTINUED LOCAL OPPOSITION TO THE CAPE WIND PROJECT, Boston University Law Review, December, 2012, 92 B.U.L. Rev. 2023 IV. The Problem and a Proposed Solution
A. The Problem: Failure in the Current Federal-State Balance of Powers
Interest in developing offshore wind energy projects in the United States has increased dramatically
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the federal approval process and the inherently local nature of offshore wind energy.
Both the opposition by the Wampanoag Tribe and the overruling of the FAA's approval further
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to express their various views in opposition to the Cape Wind project. n151
To date, the overruling of the FAA's approval is the only legal victory on
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and optimally allocate the harvesting of coastal wind energy throughout the United States. Risk of a chemical terror attack is high --- preparedness key.
Eason 13 Martin P, "Sarin Exposure: A Simulation Case Scenario," Southern Medical Journal and Volume 106, Number 1, January 2013 As a weapon of terror, chemical agents are favored because chemicals are ubiquitous,
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At: solvency No transmission problems
US Offshore Wind Collaborative, 9 (U.S. Offshore Wind Energy: A Path Forward, Authors include: Steven Clarke—Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Fara Courtney—U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative; Katherine Dykes—MIT; Laurie Jodziewicz—American Wind Energy Association; Greg Watson—Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, October 2009, http://usoffshorewind.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PathForward.pdf) Offshore wind resources are especially valuable¶ because they have several distinct advantages over¶
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not¶ require as large a transmission network as onshore¶ wind projects. Research and development is happening now
US Department of Energy, 2011 (A National Offshore Wind Strategy: Creating an Offshore Wind Strategy in the United States, February 2011, http://www1.eere.energy.gov/wind/pdfs/national_offshore_wind_strategy.pdf) DOE is currently engaged in several ongoing offshore wind activities and has invested a total
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gearbox reliability; and materials innovation using composites for tower and blade structures. At: warming Offshore wind has massive energy potential – state competition key
POWELL 12 J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law, 2013; B.A. Environmental Economics, Colgate University, 2007 Timothy H. Powell, REVISITING FEDERALISM CONCERNS IN THE OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY IN LIGHT OF CONTINUED LOCAL OPPOSITION TO THE CAPE WIND PROJECT, Boston University Law Review, December, 2012, 92 B.U.L. Rev. 2023 There is great potential for offshore wind energy throughout the coastal United States. In
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, n180 New Jersey, n181 and even another project in Massachusetts. n182
*2053 Surely the organizations behind these proposals, and their investors,
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policies would lead to a more efficient allocation of offshore wind energy facilities.
Conclusion
The experience of Cape Wind has demonstrated that the current regulatory scheme for offshore
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by local opposition groups and even in one instance overruled by the judiciary. Wind Expert consensus concludes wind power effectively curbs emissions – contrary evidence comes from bias hacks
Gross, Centre for Energy Policy and Technology, 1-9-12
Dr. Robert, Senior Lecturer in Energy and Environmental Policy at Imperial, runs the Technology and Policy Assessment theme of UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and has a long standing interest in the costs of energy technologies and in the issue of 'intermittency'.,"Are wind turbines increasing carbon emissions?”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jan/09/wind-turbines-increasing-carbon-emissions, accessed: 8-23-12 12.54pm: I have received this reaction from Dr Robert Gross, via
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simulations or models and are widely out of step with the scientific consensus. |
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2AC—at: immigration
The US doesn’t matter
Carpenter, 13—a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor to The National Interest, is the author of nine books on international affairs, including Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America (Ted, “Delusions of Indispensability,”March 1, 2013, http://server1.nationalinterest.org/article/delusions-indispensability-8145) THE NOTION that the United States is the indispensable nation is a conceit bordering on
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than clinging to a slipping hegemony until it is forced to give way. Hegemony doesn’t prevent war – its absence would have zero effect on international stability
Friedman 10 Ben, research fellow in defense and homeland security, Cato. PhD candidate in political science, MIT, Military Restraint and Defense Savings, 20 July 2010, http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-bf-07202010.html Another argument for high military spending is that U.S. military hegemony underlies global stability. Our forces and alliance commitments dampen conflict between potential rivals like China and Japan, we are told, preventing them from fighting wars that would disrupt trade and cost us more than the military spending that would have prevented war. The theoretical and empirical foundation for this claim is weak. It overestimates both the American military's contribution to international stability and the danger that instability abroad poses to Americans. In Western Europe, U.S. forces now contribute little to peace, at best making the tiny odds of war among states there slightly more so.7 Even in Asia, where there is more tension, the history of international relations suggests that without U.S. military deployments potential rivals, especially those separated by sea like Japan and China, will generally achieve a stable balance of power rather than fight. In other cases, as with our bases in Saudi Arabia between the Iraq wars, U.S. forces probably create more unrest than they prevent. Our force deployments can also generate instability by prompting states to develop nuclear weapons. Even when wars occur, their economic impact is likely to be limited here.8 By linking markets, globalization provides supply alternatives for the goods we consume, including oil. If political upheaval disrupts supply in one location, suppliers elsewhere will take our orders. Prices may increase, but markets adjust. That makes American consumers less dependent on any particular supply source, undermining the claim that we need to use force to prevent unrest in supplier nations or secure trade routes.9 Part of the confusion about the value of hegemony comes from misunderstanding the Cold War. People tend to assume, falsely, that our activist foreign policy, with troops forward supporting allies, not only caused the Soviet Union's collapse but is obviously a good thing even without such a rival. Forgotten is the sensible notion that alliances are a necessary evil occasionally tolerated to balance a particularly threatening enemy. The main justification for creating our Cold War alliances was the fear that Communist nations could conquer or capture by insurrection the industrial centers in Western Europe and Japan and then harness enough of that wealth to threaten us — either directly or by forcing us to become a garrison state at ruinous cost. We kept troops in South Korea after 1953 for fear that the North would otherwise overrun it. But these alliances outlasted the conditions that caused them. During the Cold War, Japan, Western Europe and South Korea grew wealthy enough to defend themselves. We should let them. These alliances heighten our force requirements and threaten to drag us into wars, while providing no obvious benefit. Costs capital
Raju 2013 (Manu Raju, January 18, 2013, “Senate vs. President Obama over Cabinet,” Politico, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/lessons-learned-obama-takes-fights-to-congress-85936.html)
President Barack Obama is headed into battle with the Senate over his choices for top
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might want to be gracious in his victory and seek more bipartisan support.” Won’t pass – don’t buy their lies
HAMILTON 2 – 28 – 13 Lamron Staff Writer – SUNY Geneso Bella Hamilton, On immigration reform, Obama and Congress must compromise, http://www.thelamron.com/opinion/on-immigration-reform-obama-and-congress-must-compromise-1.3001746 It is impossible to ignore the extent of America’s political disunity. In the current
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benefited; his approval rating is the highest it has been since 2009. Not unique—offshore wind now
Colman, 13 (Zack, “Senators reveal coastal energy revenue-sharing bill,” March 20th, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/289299-senators-reveal-coastal-energy-revenue-sharing-bill) Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-
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become one component of Wyden’s effort to build a wide-ranging coalition. Voting Neg links to politics – means the plan was debated before congress and voted down. DOI avoids the link – won’t hold the president responsible, he can dodge.
MENDELSON 10 Professor of Law – University of Michigan Law School Nina A. Mendelson, “Disclosing “Political” Oversight of Agency Decision Making,” Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, p.1127-1175, http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/108/7/mendelson.pdf Even if presidential supervision of agency decisions is well known to the voting population,
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this amounts to reduced electoral accountability for actions taken by administrative agencies. 188 You can pass immigration and the plan—its not an opportunity cost to a logical policy maker. NO PC now – winners-win. He needs one
THE HILL 3 – 20 – 13 Amie Parnes and Justin Sink, Obama honeymoon may be over, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/289179-obama-honeymoon-may-be-over The second-term honeymoon for President Obama is beginning to look like it is
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Still, Bonjean added, “It’s not looking so good right now.” Snowe and Collins turn
Bowes, 11 Offshore Wind is a Wise Investment http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/offshore-wind-is-a-wise-investment/
America’s offshore wind resources are immense, and it is time to get serious about
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OH), for their much-needed leadership to advance offshore wind energy. Key to the agenda
Harris and Fried, 12 ¶ Maine’s Political Warriors: Senators Snowe and Collins, ¶ Congressional Moderates in a Partisan Era ¶ Douglas B. Harris ¶ Loyola University Maryland ¶ Amy Fried ¶ University of Maine, http://nepsanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Maines_Political_Warriors.pdf
Moderates seem to be disappearing in Congress. Once a mainstay in American politics,
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citizen-run‖ (Palmer, Taylor and LiBrizzi 1992, 9). No political capital
ROTHMAN 3 – 19 – 13 Editor at Mediaite Noah Rothman, Obama’s Spiraling Job Approval Ratings Complicate Negotiations With Congressional Republicans, http://www.mediaite.com/online/obamas-spiraling-job-approval-ratings-complicate-negotiations-with-congressional-republicans/ A number of polls released this month have shown that President Barack Obama’s approval rating
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is crucial to understanding how Republicans will fare in negotiations with the president.
A CNN/ORC poll, taken between March 15 – 17, 2013,
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, survey which found Obama’s job approval rating at 47/51 percent.
The president’s approval rating is even more troubling for his supporters when one digs into this poll’s crosstabs. Obama is underwater among women. 49 percent of women disapproving of the job he has done in office compared to 48 percent who approve. Though this result is well within this subsample’s +/- 4.5 percent margin of error, in September of 2012, 51 to 45 percent of women approved of the job Obama is doing in office.
The president is buoyed by young adults aged 18 – 35-years-old
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unpopular among self-identified independents as he was prior to the election.
In fact, the only area where the president has shown an irrefutable increase in his level of support is among those adults residing in the Northeast. Today, 60 percent of adults in the Northeast approve of the job Obama is doing in office compared to 36 who disapprove. In September, just 50 percent of Northeasterners approved of Obama compared to 46 percent who disapproved.
CNN/ORC’s findings are matched by other pollsters in the field in a similar period. A McClatchy/Marist poll from March 4 – 7, 2013 of 1,068 registered voters found Obama slipping to 45 percent approval and 48 percent disapproval. A Democracy Corps survey of likely voters taken from March 9 – 12, 2013, shows Obama down to 48 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval. Neither poll, however, provides their full crosstabs.
One survey that does, however, provide a counter to these findings is a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll of an undisclosed number of adults taken from March 7 – 10. This survey found Obama above water at 50 to 46 percent approval. However, they registered a significant dip from Obama’s job approval rating in a WaPo/ABC poll released January 13 which showed the president at 55/41 percent approval.
What these polls show definitively is that the president’s post-election bounce is gone
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not a place a president entering his second term would prefer to be. Gun control thumps
Murray 3-28 (Mark, “First Thoughts: Obama jumps back into the gun debate,” NBC News, http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17501341-first-thoughts-obama-jumps-back-into-the-gun-debate?lite)
Obama jumps back into the gun debate: With some GOP senators vowing to filibuster
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that’s what makes for good legislation. It’s compromise that brings everybody together.” Obama proves
Green 10 David Michael, Professor of political science at Hofstra University, The Do-Nothing 44th President, June 12th, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html Yet, on the other hand, Bush and Cheney had far less than nothing
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. The three cases mentioned at the top of this essay are paradigmatic. The link turn outweighs the link.
Gergen 2k David, American political consultant and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, Director of the Center for Public Leadership and a professor of public service at Harvard Kennedy School, Editor-at-large for U.S. News and World Report, Senior Political Analyst for CNN, Eyewitness to Power, p. 285 As Richard Neustadt has pointed out, power can beget power in the presidency. A chief executive who exercises leadership well in a hard fight will see his reputation and strength grow for future struggles. Nothing gives a president more political capital than a strong, bipartisan victory in Congress. That's the magic of leadership. Clinton, after passage of his budget and NAFTA, was at the height of his power as president. Sadly, he couldn't hold. Wasted it on sequester
ROTHMAN 3 – 19 – 13 Editor at Mediaite Noah Rothman, Obama’s Spiraling Job Approval Ratings Complicate Negotiations With Congressional Republicans, http://www.mediaite.com/online/obamas-spiraling-job-approval-ratings-complicate-negotiations-with-congressional-republicans/ A number of polls released this month have shown that President Barack Obama’s approval rating
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is crucial to understanding how Republicans will fare in negotiations with the president.
A CNN/ORC poll, taken between March 15 – 17, 2013,
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, survey which found Obama’s job approval rating at 47/51 percent.
The president’s approval rating is even more troubling for his supporters when one digs into this poll’s crosstabs. Obama is underwater among women. 49 percent of women disapproving of the job he has done in office compared to 48 percent who approve. Though this result is well within this subsample’s +/- 4.5 percent margin of error, in September of 2012, 51 to 45 percent of women approved of the job Obama is doing in office.
The president is buoyed by young adults aged 18 – 35-years-old
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unpopular among self-identified independents as he was prior to the election.
In fact, the only area where the president has shown an irrefutable increase in his level of support is among those adults residing in the Northeast. Today, 60 percent of adults in the Northeast approve of the job Obama is doing in office compared to 36 who disapprove. In September, just 50 percent of Northeasterners approved of Obama compared to 46 percent who disapproved.
CNN/ORC’s findings are matched by other pollsters in the field in a similar period. A McClatchy/Marist poll from March 4 – 7, 2013 of 1,068 registered voters found Obama slipping to 45 percent approval and 48 percent disapproval. A Democracy Corps survey of likely voters taken from March 9 – 12, 2013, shows Obama down to 48 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval. Neither poll, however, provides their full crosstabs.
One survey that does, however, provide a counter to these findings is a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll of an undisclosed number of adults taken from March 7 – 10. This survey found Obama above water at 50 to 46 percent approval. However, they registered a significant dip from Obama’s job approval rating in a WaPo/ABC poll released January 13 which showed the president at 55/41 percent approval.
What these polls show definitively is that the president’s post-election bounce is gone. The political capital he would have preferred to spend in pursuit of a comprehensive immigration reform plan or stricter gun laws was consumed in rolling battles with Congress over the sequester and the debt
ceiling between December and February. Obama is now reduced to negotiating with the dismally unpopular members of Congress on relatively equal footing. This is not a place a president entering his second term would prefer to be. |
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2AC—at: court cp - Conditionality is a voting issue—it encourages argument under-development and hurts the 2AC by making it impossible to anticipate the negative strategy—and kills education by ignoring argument interaction. If they get multiple worlds we should get to advocate the permutation. Dispo solves your offense
2. Permutation—do both—shields the link to the net benefit or solves the net benefit 3. Perm: do the counterplan—it does the aff but changes implied functions of fiat. Counterplans must be textually AND functionally competitive. Resolved means the topic committee voted for it and should means desirable. That’s dictionary.com Permutation do the counterplan then the plan Permutation do the plan then the counterplan Democracy links to the supreme court plank because they are not elected either. 4. The Department of the Interior is essential to spark investment
US Department of Energy, 2011 (A National Offshore Wind Strategy: Creating an Offshore Wind Strategy in the United States, February 2011, http://www1.eere.energy.gov/wind/pdfs/national_offshore_wind_strategy.pdf) A National Offshore Wind Strategy: Creating an Offshore Wind Energy Industry in the United
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work together to spur the rapid and responsible development of offshore wind energy. Supreme court cant solve regulatory uncertainty
Wolf 2011 Michael Allan Wolf University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law The Supreme Court and the Environment: The Reluctant Protector December 2, 2011 CQ Press/Sage, 2012 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1967610 When the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence is founded on a provision of the Constitution, the
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and has been) easily neutralized or countered by statutory or regulatory changes.
Therefore, when one views the body of modern environmental law—the decisions and
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at least as much on the efforts of other public and private actors. Democracy doesn’t solve war --- it’s multilateral institutions and historical patterns
Schwartz and Skinner '01 Thomas and Kiron K (Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, associate professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University); December 22, 2001; “The Myth of Democratic Peace”; JAI Press; ORBIS Here we show that neither the historical record nor the theoretical arguments advanced for
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-Peru, 1995 NATO-Yugoslavia, 1999 India-Pakistan, 1999 Political preferences prevent full democratization
Seligson and Tucker 05 Amber L. Seligson. Joshua A, Tucker. Feeding the Hand that Bit You: Voting for Ex-authoritarian Rulers in Russia and Bolivia http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200501/ai_n13640841/pg_37, 2005 What could be motivating voters in transition countries to vote for leaders who have proven
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democracies, but are also distinguished by a preference for nondemocratic political systems. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 8 | Opponent: Minnesota SS | Judge: - Conditionality is a voting issue—it encourages argument under-development and hurts the 2AC by making it impossible to anticipate the negative strategy—and kills education by ignoring argument interaction. If they get multiple worlds we should get to advocate the permutation. Dispo solves your offense
2. Permutation—do both Doesn’t solve federalism—duh 3. Federal government key
US Offshore Wind Collaborative, 9 (U.S. Offshore Wind Energy: A Path Forward, Authors include: Steven Clarke—Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Fara Courtney—U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative; Katherine Dykes—MIT; Laurie Jodziewicz—American Wind Energy Association; Greg Watson—Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, October 2009, http://usoffshorewind.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PathForward.pdf) Implications for Offshore Wind Energy¶ Regulation and Government Policies¶ The future of the
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economic policy should be enacted to¶ most effectively foster offshore wind development. 4. States Fiat is a voting issue—Illegit against this aff – the restrictions are the state restrictions – makes it the object of the resolution. That form of fiat kills all aff ground. 5. Perm do the counterplan – states action moots the aff. Avoids the link to all the disads because the perm includes a plan that does absolutely nothing 6. Perm allows blame shifting to the states
Overby 3 – A. Brooke, Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law, “Our New Commercial Law Federalism.” Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Temple Law Review, Summer, 2003 76 Temp. L. Rev. 297 Lexis We held in New York that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce
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does not erase these concerns with accountability, it does ameliorate them slightly. 7. Federal leadership key
NREL 10 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States ASSESSMENT OF OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS September 2010 http://www.nrel.gov/wind/pdfs/40745.pdf In the United States, more than 2,000 MW of offshore wind projects
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but they will need federal leadership, technical guidance, and financial resources. |
