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US investors are leading investment in renewable energy now.
Caperton et al - September 5, 2012 (Richard - Director of Clean Energy Investement @ Center for American Progress Action Fund, "The Romney-Ryan Ticket: Ceding The Clean Energy Future", Think Progress: Climate Progress, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/05/797921/the-romney-ryan-ticket-ceding-the-clean-energy-future/ - accessed 9/5/12) kc

The United States led in...2008 to 2009—continues to thrive.

Fossil fuels trade-off with renewable investment
Clean Energy Now - July 18, 2012 ("Holland Families Call on City Officials to Make Holland Clean Energy Leader", Sierra Club Press Release, http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/mi/pr/pr2012-07-18a.aspx - date accessed 9/4/12) kc

Holland must make energy ...while investing in fossil fuels.

Renewables key to economic stability.
ThinkProgress March 28 2012 (“Fact Sheet: 6 Things You Should Know About The Value Of Renewable Energy” ThinkProgress, Mar 28, 2012, by Adam James a Special Assistant for Energy Policy at American Progress. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/28/453122/fact-sheet-6-things-you-should-know-about-the-value-of-renewable-energy/) SA

 Clean energy investment has ...of innovation and competitiveness.

Economic collapse causes global nuclear war.
Merlini, 11 (Cesare nonresident senior fellow @ Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees @ Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2011/4/international%20relations%20merlini/04_international_relations_merlini.pdf) 

Two neatly opposed scenarios ...such as unbridled nationalism.

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Wind won’t solve emissions - inefficiencies

McMahon 12

Jeff McMahon, Forbes Contributor, "Wind Power May Not Reduce Carbon Emissions As Expected: Argonne" 5/30/2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/30/wind-power-may-not-reduce-carbon-emissions-argonne/ accessed 10-3-12cd

Adding wind power to...of the wind power.

Offshore wind turbines in the US will be destroyed by hurricanes

Doyle Rice, February 14, 2012, USA TODAY, Hurricanes pose risk to wind farms; High winds could damage turbines, Lexis

When an oncoming hurricane ... of the supporting tower.

Offshore wind fails – sea too harsh

Wind Energy Planning 2012 , “Offshore Wind Turbines” http:~/~/www.windenergyplanning.com/category/offshore-wind-turbines/http://www.windenergyplanning.com/category/offshore-wind-turbines/

Offshore wind turbine ...specialist vessels required.

Wind turbines cause global warming

Tim Worstall , 4/30/2012 Contributor “Wind Farms Cause Global Warming!”http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/30/wind-farms-cause-global-warming/

The basic effect is that... anthropogenic global warming so far.

Wind turbines cause global warming

Brad Plumer , 04/30/2012 associate editor at The New Republic “No, wind farms are not causing global warming” “http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/no-wind-farms-are-not-causing-global-warming/2012/04/30/gIQAMl2GsT_blog.html

The frenzy started after ...atmosphere down closer to the ground.

Turn - Wind increases warming – disrupts natural air flows

Gray 12 Louise Gray, "Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study," April 29, 2012, The Guardian, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9234715/Wind-farms-can-cause-climate-change-finds-new-study.html accessed 10-3-12cd

Usually at night the air closer... time,” said Prof Zhou.

Increases emissions – scientific consensus

Boone 10 Jon Boone, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, "OVERBLOWN: Windpower on the Firing Line (Part I)," 9-13-10, www.masterresource.org/2010/09/windpower-overblown-part-1/ accessed 10-3-12cd

Third, the National Academy of Science, ...this flop was noticed is unclear.

Increases emissions – coal cycling

BENTEK 12 (BENTEK Energy, the leading energy markets information company, “How Less Became More”, http://docs.wind-watch.org/BENTEK-How-Less-Became-More.pdf accessed 10-3-12cd

The study details the surprising ...units had not been cycled.

Wind power bad – hurts the economy – takes from more efficient sectors – Spain proves

Tupi ’10 Bradley S. Tupi, an attorney with Tucker Arensberg, P.C., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His practice includes environmental and general litigation. Mr. Tupi has handled several cases involving wind energy projects. The views expressed in this paper are those of Mr. Tupi and are not intended to reflect the opinions of Tucker Arensberg or its clients., “WIND ENERGY IS NOT THE ANSWER” http://www.jvas.org/pdf_files/Wind_Energy_Not_Answer.pdf) (assessed August 27,2012) LMM

Wind energy creates economic harm i... not believe in global warming. 

Industrial wind energy fails every test – kills job and gives unreliable electricity

Washington Times 2012 The Washington Times Monday, August 6, 2012, “DRIESSEN: Wind-energy tax credits fund bird murder Eagles being sliced back toward extinction”, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/6/wind-energy-tax-credits-fund-bird-murder/ (assessed September 6,2012

Clean-energy devotees are ...and harms human health.

Wind power bad – inconsistencies cost the consumer to back up and back down

Lundstrom 2010 Laurel Lundstrom, writer of American Public Power Association’s research, development and demonstration program. November-December 2010, “Wind:So Unpredictable”, American Public Power Association, http://www.publicpower.org/Media/magazine/ArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=29681 (assessed August 26,2012) LMM

The three most troubling ...quickly enough to reflect the changes.

Wind can’t solve – their evidence overestimates

Forbes 11 Larry Bell, "Wind Energy's Oveblown Prospects," 3-8-11, www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/03/08/wind-energys-overblown-prospects/ accessed 10-3-12cd Unfortunately, wind doesn’t ... transmission lines and land right-of-way use.

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The aff must specify which branch passes the plan

Vote neg-
- Ground- we lose branch-specific counterplans, disads, and case arguments
- Condo- not specifying allows 2AC clarification to moot links- means not resolved
- Real World- no such actor as the USFG, only specific branches
- There’s a topical and legitimate version- specify 

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Substantial increase means at least a doubling
Mormann 11 (Fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford Law School.)
Felix 38 Ecology L.Q. 903

Innovation of the scale necessary for a … energy RDandD. n191

Prefer our interp:
Limits- Restrictive interpretation of ‘substantial’ is the only check on topic explosion that makes it impossible to be Neg.
Fair Ground- Our interp allows almost any financial incentive aff while still ensuring core neg ground with abundant literature and robust links to Disads.

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The debate over nuclear energy is a debate about memory – the nuclear industry relies on a narrative of technological progress that calls on us to forget the trauma of the past in favor of the bright future promised by nuclear energy.  
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The shock and aftermath of the ...resist forgetting our past. 

The narrative of nuclear energy is rooted in environmental racism and requires public memory to ignore past nuclear accidents
Chen 2011 Michelle Chen, “Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy,” http://www.dianuke.org/radioactive-racism-behind-nuclear-energy/,  2011

Jim Green of Friends of the ...eclipse fears of its global consequences.

The cultural framing of safe nuclear energy in the hands of responsible technocrats erases the memory of victims of nuclear violence and contributes to the withering of the nuclear public sphere.
Taylor 2010 Bryan C. Taylor, Prof of Comm @ U of Colorado, Boulder, Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials, 2010, 64

The second conclusion involves ...channel the force of an authoritarian technocracy."

The disavowal of American violence results in perpetual genocidal warfare.
Hedges 2005 Chris Hedges, war reporter for the new york times,  “War: Realities and Myths”, 6/11/2005, http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hedges.php?articleid=6294

The vanquished know war. ..such as Saddam Hussein as become them. 

However, the dominant narrative of nuclear energy can and is being challenged – one alternative source of memory about nuclear violence comes from the poetic praxis of the Japanese band Frying Dutchman:
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The resistance didn’t come ... of the dark side of nuclear power. 

The task of your ballot should be to join in this struggle of memory against forgetting – your ballot can contribute to the discursive mosaic of resistance surrounding the memory of nuclear violence. Each act of remembering is key to bringing about an inter-connected struggle to reclaim the nuclear public sphere.
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

This mosaic is our collective recollection. ...disaster, our remembering has just begun. 

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Perception of increases in supply and decreases in demand cause immediate drop in global oil prices.
Feldstein 2008 Martin Feldstein chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal's board of contributors, “We Can Lower Oil Prices Now,” Originally published in The Wall Street Journal July 1, 2008 http://www.nber.org/feldstein/wsj07012008.pdf

Now here is the good news.... increased consumption today. 

High Oil prices key to the Russian Economy
Nichol 2012 Jim Nichol, Coordinator Specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests, Congressional Research Service, February 10, 2012, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33407.pdf

Russia’s economy began to ...corruption, capital flight, and unemployment.

1998 and 2008 crises proves that the economy is only resilient due to high oil prices
THE ECONOMIC TIMES 2008 (“Russia seen shrugging off market collapse,” Sep 21, Lexis)

Buoyed by vast oil wealth, ... slower than we had... but relatively high."

Russian economy is not resilient—incomplete privatization makes it vulnerable to shocks
BBC WORLDWIDE MONITORING 2008 (Oct 10, Text of report by popular Russian newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets on 6 October, Lexis)

Over the almost two decades ...competitive under crisis conditions."

Russian economic decline causes nuclear prolif, accidents, and miscalc.
Cohen 2001 Stephen Cohen, Prof of Russian Studies at NYU, June 7, 2001, http://www.thenation.com/article/russian-nuclear-roulette?page=full

The bad news is this: ...on its fragile nuclear controls. 

Impact’s extinction
Leslie 96 John Leslie, Professor Emeritus of philosophy @ University of Guelph, 1996, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, p. 32

Probably, however, it has ...three hundred nuclear explosions.