Tournament: UGA | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
PIC 1NC

The United States federal government should remove federal environmental review requirements for wind power production except on tribal lands, except those located within 110 miles of the centerline of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population whooping crane migration corridor.

Wind turbines have put the whooping crane on the verge of extinction. Continued development from the PTC will make extinction within 5 years inevitable.

Rucker and Driessen 12 ~Craig and Paul, "Wind energy’s bird and bat butchery", August 8, 2012, http://www.cfact.org/2012/08/08/wind-energys-bird-and-bat-butchery/~~
Endangered whooping cranes are also being "sliced" back to the verge of extinction
AND
Congress should want that on their conscience. No Americans should tolerate it.

Keystone species key to prevent ecosystem collapse and human extinction

Gershwin 5 – Peter, international fellow at Yale University and a graduate of Oxford’s Human Sciences Program
~Oct 25, LEXIS~
Plants and animals that flourish within a specific niche, and who depend upon it
AND
, and not vice versa, there may be hope for our species.
Politics
1NC – Immigration Politics

Immigration reform is moving through the Senate but the specifics still need to be negotiated – Obama’s political capital is key

CBS News 1/28/13 "Key senators agree on sweeping immigration reform" http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/-http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/

A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation
AND
supporting immigration reform with a path to citizenship has become a political imperative.

The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.

Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. "Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions" http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions-http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
AND
the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.

Immigration reform is necessary to revive the economy.

Ezra Klein 1/31/13 Worried about the economy? Then pass immigration reform  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/31/worried-about-the-economy-then-pass-immigration-reform/
Washington tends to have a narrow view of what counts as "economic policy."
AND
business owners. Immigration reform is a way to get more of both.

Econ decline causes nuclear war

Mead 9. ~2/4, Walter Russell, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Only Makes You Stronger: Why the recession bolstered America, The New Republic~
None of which means that we can just sit back and enjoy the recession.
AND
the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. 

Warming Answers- Frontline

1. No warming- Newest peer review studies prove
   Taylor ’11 (7/27- senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute (2011, "New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism," Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/) 

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing
AND
great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. 

2. Negative feedbacks solve- No tipping point
McShane 8 (Owen, the chairman of the policy panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition and director of the Center for Resource Management Studies, 4-4-8, The National Business Review (New Zealand), "Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled", Lexis)

Atmospheric scientists generally agree that as carbon dioxide levels increase there is a law of
AND
to Spencer agreeing that he is right%21 There goes the alarmist neighbourhood%21 

3. Can’t solve warming – no country will get on board
Hale ’11 - PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, London School of Economics (Thomas, "A Climate Coalition of the Willing," Washington Quarterly, Winter, http://www.twq.com/11winter/docs/11winter_Hale.pdf

Intergovernmental efforts to limit the gases that cause climate change have all but failed.
AND
successor to the Kyoto Protocol, at least not in the near future.

4. Warming doesn’t cause extinction
Lomborg ’8 (Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Bjorn, "Warming warnings get overheated", The Guardian, 8/15, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities
AND
to be 1,700% richer by the end of this century. 

Tournament: UGA | Round: Quarter | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC – Topicality

T - IN

In means within
Encarta 7
(http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861620513-http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861620513)

in ~ in-http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/Pronounce.aspx?search=in ~ CORE MEANING: a grammatical word indicating that something or somebody
AND
party or group has achieved or will achieve power or authority voted in overwhelmingly

DOE definitions requires that energy projects must operate in the 50 state states and territories to be considered in the US
Kovacs 7
(William, vice president for Environmental, Technology %26 Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Comments on Proposed Rule on Loan Guarantees for Projects that Employ Innovative Technologies, 6/29, http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/nopr-comments/comment16.pdf)

DOE defines "United States" as follows:3
United States means the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa or any territory or possession of the United States of America.
DOE further states that:4
~loan guarantee~ Applications will be denied if: (1) The project will be built or operated outside the United States…
Many planned off-shore renewable energy projects are designed to derive energy from wind
AND
thermal differences, or other means to produce renewable or low carbon energy.
There is precedent for using such a definition of ocean waters as they relate to the United States: DOE has used a similar definition in its Final Rule on Renewable Energy Production Incentives.5

Vote negative—-all of the energy production for the aff occurs outside the US—-this explodes the topic because it makes all battlefield energy shifts topical, allows demos in foreign countries and drives the topic toward affs that make very little dent on the domestic energy make-up. Most limiting interpretation is best because it drive in-depth research. 

1NC – China DA

China leads the world in global wind competitiveness

Bozzato 12 ~"The Wind Dragon: a Chinese tale of wind power", June 4, 2012, Fabrizio Bozzato, M.A. in International Relations (University of Tasmania, Australia) and a Master in Political Science (University of Milan, Italy, Chin Forsight~

Because of the hectic pace of China’s economic and social development, Chinese energy demand
AND
erection of wind turbines at the rate of more than one per hour.

U.S. wind growth prevents China from maintaining wind leadership

Markatos, 2/3/09 - founder of Sustainable Energy Transition (Dennis, "Record Global Wind Growth: Becomes Race Between US %26 China", Huffington Post,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-markatos/record-global-wind-growth_b_163728.html)

Wind power did not just have outstanding growth in the US-http://setenergy.org/2009/01/28/2008-a-record-year-for-wind/ last year. This
AND
recovery, we may grow quickly enough to outpace China for many years.

Chinese clean tech leadership is key to their economy, internal stability, and solves extinction

Paul Denlinger 10, consultant specializing in the China market who is based in Hong Kong, 7/20/10, "Why China Has To Dominate Green Tech," http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/07/20/why-china-has-to-dominate-green-tech/
On the policy level, the Chinese government has to perform a delicate balancing act
AND
century. For all practical purposes, we’re all in the same boat.

China’s economic rise is good —- they’re on the brink of collapse —- causes CCP instability and lashout —- impacts are the global economy, US primacy, and Sino relations

Mead 9 Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Only Makes You Stronger," The New Republic, 2/4/9, http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8
The greatest danger both to U.S.-China relations and to American power
AND
modernization and change; nobody knows what will happen if the growth stops.

Chinese lashout goes nuclear

The Epoch Times, Renxing San, 8/4/2004, 8/4, http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-4/30931.html
Since the Party’s life is "above all else," it would not be surprising
AND
now plans to hold one billion people hostage and gamble with their lives.  
 

1NC – Immigration Politics

Immigration reform is moving through the Senate but the specifics still need to be negotiated – Obama’s political capital is key

CBS News 1/28/13 "Key senators agree on sweeping immigration reform" http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/-http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/

A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation
AND
supporting immigration reform with a path to citizenship has become a political imperative.

The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.

Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. "Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions" http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions-http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
AND
the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.

Immigration reform is necessary to revive the economy.

Ezra Klein 1/31/13 Worried about the economy? Then pass immigration reform  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/31/worried-about-the-economy-then-pass-immigration-reform/
Washington tends to have a narrow view of what counts as "economic policy."
AND
business owners. Immigration reform is a way to get more of both.

Econ decline causes nuclear war

Mead 9. ~2/4, Walter Russell, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Only Makes You Stronger: Why the recession bolstered America, The New Republic~
None of which means that we can just sit back and enjoy the recession.
AND
the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. 

PIC

The United States federal government should airspace restrictions on airborne wind energy systems for the military within the United States, excluding the migratory routes of whooping cranes.

Kills whooping cranes – migratory routes

Seasholes 12 ~Brian; 9/4/12; Wind power takes precedence over protecting endangered cranes; http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Wind-power-takes-precedence-over-protecting-3839441.php~~
Why is the U.S. government funding and promoting a plan to allow
AND
killing endangered species of bats and bird species that are uncommon and declining.

Whooping cranes uniquely provide support for conservation movements that keep other species alive
Duff 3 ~Joe Duff, "A New Season", January 22, 2003, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3goeIHgv7-0J:www.operationmigration.org/field_2002-3_fal.html+%26cd=1%26hl=en%26ct=clnk%26gl=us~~
Notes: Endangered species in North American are normally assigned a team of leading experts
AND
it uses, thereby saving other less engaging residents of the same ecosystem.

Keystone species key to prevent ecosystem collapse and human extinction
Gershwin 5 – Peter, international fellow at Yale University and a graduate of Oxford’s Human Sciences Program
~Oct 25, LEXIS~
Plants and animals that flourish within a specific niche, and who depend upon it
AND
, and not vice versa, there may be hope for our species.

 Warming Answers- Frontline

1. No warming- Newest peer review studies prove

Taylor ’11 (7/27- senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute (2011, "New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism," Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/) 

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing
AND
great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. 

2. Negative feedbacks solve- No tipping point

McShane 8 (Owen, the chairman of the policy panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition and director of the Center for Resource Management Studies, 4-4-8, The National Business Review (New Zealand), "Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled", Lexis)

Atmospheric scientists generally agree that as carbon dioxide levels increase there is a law of
AND
to Spencer agreeing that he is right%21 There goes the alarmist neighbourhood%21 

3. Can’t solve warming – no country will get on board

Hale ’11 - PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, London School of Economics (Thomas, "A Climate Coalition of the Willing," Washington Quarterly, Winter, http://www.twq.com/11winter/docs/11winter_Hale.pdf

Intergovernmental efforts to limit the gases that cause climate change have all but failed.
AND
successor to the Kyoto Protocol, at least not in the near future.

4. Warming doesn’t cause extinction

Lomborg ’8 (Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Bjorn, "Warming warnings get overheated", The Guardian, 8/15, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities
AND
to be 1,700% richer by the end of this century.
AT: Generic Heg

No Escalation in Afghanistan – other countires won’t be Drawn in

Weitz 6 (Richard, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Future Security Strategies at Hudson Institute, Washington Quarterly 29.3, Muse)  
Central Asian security affairs have become much more complex than during the original nineteenth-
AND
opportunities for cooperative diplomacy in a region where bilateral ties traditionally have predominated. 

No Escalation – Neighbors Contain Conflict

BBC Monitoring South Asia, 2009, bbc is a credible news network, BBC Monitoring South Asia, "Paper says neighbors can end Afghanistan War," December 19 2009, lexis.
One of the issues related to the war in Afghanistan has been the role of
AND
strong central government in Afghanistan will not pose any problems to those countries.

1. The Unipolar Moment is over and can’t be recovered - Even if the United States is the preeminent power, the financial crash of 08 means that they won’t be able to prevent competition

Rachman 11  (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator, Zero-Sum Future, 2011, pp 3-4)

But the economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has changed the logic of
AND
the "unipolar moment" that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union

2. Heg doesn’t solve war –

A. No threats require primacy and other factors ensure security.

Friedman and Preble 10 (Benjamin Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute, Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint, September 22, 2010 Cato Policy Analysis No. 667 September 23, 2010 http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA667.pdf
The United States confuses what it wants from its military, which is global primacy
AND
resentment. Global military primacy is a game not worth the candle.56

B. No war – States have an incentive to avoid it.

Zakaria 08 (Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, 2008, The Post-American World,  p. 244)
In certain areas – the South China Sea, for example – U.S
AND
futile and unnecessary.  Small work-arounds might be just as effective.

3. Heg inevitable.

Goldberg 11 ( January 28 2011 "America’s China Syndrome" AEIPPR American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research http://www.aei.org/article/103022-http://www.aei.org/article/103022)
It’s true that from the early 1990s until around now, America has been essentially
AND
In that sense, the new normal looks a lot like the old normal

Their advantage talks about Iraq, but the US is no longer operating in Iraq – we pulled out of there.

Solvency 

Natural gas prices crush the wind market -

Broehl 11 (Jesse, Windpower Monthly Magazine, "New Gas Extraction Threatens Wind’s Competitiveness in the US")
A lack of long-term federal policies such as a federal renewable electricity standard
AND
trillion and represent two years of America’s current total national gas consumption level.

Lower gas prices ensures lack of market competition for wind

Yang et al 8 (Climate Change Policy Partnership @ Duke University, Chi-Jen Yang, Eric Williams, Jonas Monast, Climate Change Policy, "Wind Power: Barriers and Policy Solutions" November 2008)
Its small-scale nature provides wind power with a competitive edge over coal-
AND
assume that the high growth rate of wind power will sustain over decades.

Manufacturers can’t expand to keep up with the plan – trying to collapses the company and turns the advantage

Yang et al 8 (Climate Change Policy Partnership @ Duke University, Chi-Jen Yang, Eric Williams, Jonas Monast, Climate Change Policy, "Wind Power: Barriers and Policy Solutions" November 2008)
Since 2005, the demand for wind turbines has been outgrowing supply. Merrill Lynch
AND
developed in the United States, including ourselves (Rosenberg, 2008).’ 

Tournament: UGA | Round: Octas | Opponent: App State | Judge:
1NC – T Increase

A. Interpretation – A topical aff must increase incentives relative to the status quo such that the quantity of energy produced becomes created.

Definitions -

1. Increase requires a net increase over the status quo baseline

Judge Rogers, June 24, 2005, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, State of New York, et al., Petitioners v. US Environmental Protection Agency, 367 U.S. App. D.C. 3; 413 F.3d 3, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 12378, ; 60 ERC (BNA) 1791, p. Lexis
~48~ Statutory Interpretation. HN16Go to the description of this Headnote.While
AND
car five or ten years ago when the engine was in perfect condition.

2. Energy Production means AMOUNT OF SUPPLY

5th Circuit Court of Appeals 6 IN THE MATTER OF: MIRANT CORPORATION, Debtor
AND
related to the marketing of federal power. See § 832a(f)-http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/mungo/lexseestat.do?bct=A%26risb=21_T15305759034%26homeCsi=6396%26A=0.3905894189281863%26urlEnc=ISO-8859-1%26%26citeString=16%20U.S.C.%20832A%26countryCode=USA.

B. Violation – the affirmative only changes the duration of the incentive – it does not increase incentives for energy production relative to the status quo.

Prefer our interpretation

Ground – The without an increase we can’t get links to any of our disads that might happen in the next 6 years. We aren’t able to debate the desirability of the affirmative which kills topic education.

Justifies Delay Affirmatives – their interpretation allows the affirmative to delay the plan indefinitely, the neg would never win.

C. Topicality is a voting Issue – Fairness and Education.

1NC – China DA

China leads the world in global wind competitiveness

Bozzato 12 ~"The Wind Dragon: a Chinese tale of wind power", June 4, 2012, Fabrizio Bozzato, M.A. in International Relations (University of Tasmania, Australia) and a Master in Political Science (University of Milan, Italy, Chin Forsight~

Because of the hectic pace of China’s economic and social development, Chinese energy demand
AND
erection of wind turbines at the rate of more than one per hour.

U.S. wind growth prevents China from maintaining wind leadership

Markatos, 2/3/09 - founder of Sustainable Energy Transition (Dennis, "Record Global Wind Growth: Becomes Race Between US %26 China", Huffington Post,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-markatos/record-global-wind-growth_b_163728.html)

Wind power did not just have outstanding growth in the US-http://setenergy.org/2009/01/28/2008-a-record-year-for-wind/ last year. This
AND
recovery, we may grow quickly enough to outpace China for many years.

Chinese clean tech leadership is key to their economy, internal stability, and solves extinction

Paul Denlinger 10, consultant specializing in the China market who is based in Hong Kong, 7/20/10, "Why China Has To Dominate Green Tech," http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/07/20/why-china-has-to-dominate-green-tech/
On the policy level, the Chinese government has to perform a delicate balancing act
AND
century. For all practical purposes, we’re all in the same boat.

China’s economic rise is good —- they’re on the brink of collapse —- causes CCP instability and lashout —- impacts are the global economy, US primacy, and Sino relations

Mead 9 Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Only Makes You Stronger," The New Republic, 2/4/9, http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8
The greatest danger both to U.S.-China relations and to American power
AND
modernization and change; nobody knows what will happen if the growth stops.

Chinese lashout goes nuclear

The Epoch Times, Renxing San, 8/4/2004, 8/4, http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-4/30931.html
Since the Party’s life is "above all else," it would not be surprising
AND
now plans to hold one billion people hostage and gamble with their lives.  
 

1NC – Immigration Politics

Immigration reform is moving through the Senate but the specifics still need to be negotiated – Obama’s political capital is key

CBS News 1/28/13 "Key senators agree on sweeping immigration reform" http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/-http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/

A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation
AND
supporting immigration reform with a path to citizenship has become a political imperative.

The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.

Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. "Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions" http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions-http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
AND
the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.

Immigration reform is necessary to revive the economy.

Ezra Klein 1/31/13 Worried about the economy? Then pass immigration reform  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/31/worried-about-the-economy-then-pass-immigration-reform/
Washington tends to have a narrow view of what counts as "economic policy."
AND
business owners. Immigration reform is a way to get more of both.

Econ decline causes nuclear war

Mead 9. ~2/4, Walter Russell, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Only Makes You Stronger: Why the recession bolstered America, The New Republic~
None of which means that we can just sit back and enjoy the recession.
AND
the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. 

Warming Answers- Frontline

1. No warming- Newest peer review studies prove

Taylor ’11 (7/27- senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute (2011, "New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism," Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/) 

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing
AND
great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. 

2. Negative feedbacks solve- No tipping point

McShane 8 (Owen, the chairman of the policy panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition and director of the Center for Resource Management Studies, 4-4-8, The National Business Review (New Zealand), "Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled", Lexis)

Atmospheric scientists generally agree that as carbon dioxide levels increase there is a law of
AND
to Spencer agreeing that he is right%21 There goes the alarmist neighbourhood%21 

3. Can’t solve warming – no country will get on board

Hale ’11 - PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, London School of Economics (Thomas, "A Climate Coalition of the Willing," Washington Quarterly, Winter, http://www.twq.com/11winter/docs/11winter_Hale.pdf

Intergovernmental efforts to limit the gases that cause climate change have all but failed.
AND
successor to the Kyoto Protocol, at least not in the near future.

4. Warming doesn’t cause extinction

Lomborg ’8 (Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Bjorn, "Warming warnings get overheated", The Guardian, 8/15, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/15/carbonemissions.climatechange

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities
AND
to be 1,700% richer by the end of this century.
AT: Generic Heg

1. The Unipolar Moment is over and can’t be recovered - Even if the United States is the preeminent power, the financial crash of 08 means that they won’t be able to prevent competition

Rachman 11  (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator, Zero-Sum Future, 2011, pp 3-4)

But the economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has changed the logic of
AND
the "unipolar moment" that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union

2. Heg doesn’t solve war –

A. No threats require primacy and other factors ensure security.

Friedman and Preble 10 (Benjamin Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute, Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint, September 22, 2010 Cato Policy Analysis No. 667 September 23, 2010 http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA667.pdf
The United States confuses what it wants from its military, which is global primacy
AND
resentment. Global military primacy is a game not worth the candle.56

B. No war – States have an incentive to avoid it.

Zakaria 08 (Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, 2008, The Post-American World,  p. 244)
In certain areas – the South China Sea, for example – U.S
AND
futile and unnecessary.  Small work-arounds might be just as effective.

3. Heg inevitable.

Goldberg 11 ( January 28 2011 "America’s China Syndrome" AEIPPR American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research http://www.aei.org/article/103022-http://www.aei.org/article/103022)
It’s true that from the early 1990s until around now, America has been essentially
AND
In that sense, the new normal looks a lot like the old normal

Status quo solves – none of their cards talk about how the status quo isn’t sufficient for a military transition, and when questioned in CX they don’t answer this

Solvency 

1. Making the PTC permanent slows the pace of wind industry growth.

Greg Jenner 10/18/12 "Economists Weigh in on the PTC Extension" http://www.lawofrenewableenergy.com/2012/10/articles/wind-energy/economists-weigh-in-on-the-ptc-extension/
According to CRS: Maybe. By its lights, a one year extension of
AND
a negative effect on wind development as utilities opt for lowest cost resources.

2. Diversification turn – the plan locks in mature technology because it isn’t performance based.

Jesse Jenkins, et al April 2012 Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute Mark Muro, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Cofounders, Breakthrough Institute Letha Tawney, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute Alex Trembath, Policy Associate, Breakthrough Institute "Beyond Boom %26 Bust" http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Beyond_Boom_and_Bust.pdf-http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Beyond_Boom_and_Bust.pdf

Many of today’s clean tech deployment subsidies and policies should be reformed with these criteria
AND
portfolio, and put clean tech segments on track to full subsidy independence.

Status quo solves - The Retuccia card explains that wind is growing in spite of the PTC’s impermanence. Their plan isn’t necessary.