Tournament: NDT | Round: Scout | Opponent: Wiki | Judge: God

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Education about federal policies must be informed by climate science – that is key to check special interests from causing warming, and it~’s low now

Hansen ~’9, heads the ~NASA-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA ~Goddard Institute for Space Studies-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Institute_for_Space_Studies and ~adjunct professor-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_States 

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in capitals around the world – and we are running out of time.

Put our predictions on a different level – they are based in fact and not politics. Attempts to relegate science as mere opinion empower climate skeptics and cause warming

Banning ~’9, Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado (Elisabeth, "When Poststructural Theory and Contemporary Politics Collide-The Vexed Case of Global Warming", September)

This essay critically reads a preeminent public policy debate*that of global warming*

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capacities might be pressed into service, however, seems worthy of attention.

Tournament: Bow | Round: Colored | Opponent: Background | Judge: Hue

===1AC===

Education about federal policies must be informed by climate science – that is key to check special interests from causing warming, and it~’s low now

Hansen ~’9, heads the ~NASA-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA ~Goddard Institute for Space Studies-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Institute_for_Space_Studies and ~adjunct professor-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_States 

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in capitals around the world – and we are running out of time.

Put our predictions on a different level – they are based in fact and not politics. Attempts to relegate science as mere opinion empower climate skeptics and cause warming

Banning ~’9, Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado (Elisabeth, "When Poststructural Theory and Contemporary Politics Collide-The Vexed Case of Global Warming", September)

This essay critically reads a preeminent public policy debate*that of global warming*

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capacities might be pressed into service, however, seems worthy of attention.

====Taking action against warming represents an opportunity to rebuild progressive politics for a more just society, but only if we set aside traditional differences founded around identity in favor of a broad-based coalition====

**Smith 10** Brendan, co-founder of Labor Network for Sustainability, 11-23, "Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change," Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/23-1

I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun

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said to me, "God help us, I hope you~’re right."

====The state is inevitable and an indispensable part of the solution to warming ====

**Eckersley 4** Robyn, Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, "The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty", MIT Press, 2004, Google Books, pp. 3-8

While acknowledging the basis for this antipathy toward the nation- state, and the

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at least as a potentially more significant ally in the green cause.17

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====Decisionmaking skills and engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and actualizes radical politics====

**Hager,** professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College, **1992**

(Carol J., "Democratizing Technology: Citizen %26 State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990" Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70)

During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement

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citizen activists to become both participants in and critics of the policy process.

====Reformism is good —- in the context of distributed generation only institutional change can create momentum —- absent such a focus business as usual will persist ====

Wolsink 11 (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)

2.4. Path dependency By replacing the conventional consumer-producer relationship with

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levels of willingness among key actors to accept required changes in this framework.

====State focused nuclear power solutions key====

**Nordhaus 11**, chairman – Breakthrough Instiute, and Shellenberger, president – Breakthrough Insitute, MA cultural anthropology – University of California, Santa Cruz, 2/25/~’11

(Ted and Michael, ~http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/the_long_death_of_environmenta-http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/the_long_death_of_environmenta)

Tenth, we are going to have to get over our suspicion of technology,

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simpler, more bucolic past in which humans lived in harmony with Nature.

====Anti-nuclear opposition is responsible for the spread of coal; their alternative simply re-affirms the structural forces that make structural violence possible in the form of coal pollution====

**King 9** - Host and Executive Producer of "White House Chronicle" — a news and public affairs program airing on PBS

After 40 Years, Environmentalists Start To See the Nuclear Light, Llewellyn King, November 25, 2009 – 8:47 pm

Although very little happened, Nov. 24 was a red letter day for the

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has cost the environment 40 years when it comes to reducing greenhouse gases.

====These sorts of techno-fixes are necessary in order to create effective challenges to the fossil fuel industry – radical change fails====

**Stewart, 2003** (Keith, PhD on environmental politics in Ontario and currently works for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, "If I Can~’t Dance: Reformism, Anti-Capitalism and the Canadian Environmental Movement", Canadian Dimension, Vol. 37, No. 5)

Typically this action initially takes the form of seeking out practical, achievable solutions like

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But there is at least some promise in the struggle, so far.