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The knowledge base of the plan is neither true nor objective – it is based on elimination of any combination of forms of thinking – it is an extreme form of thinking that has no privileged claim to access but has taken it by historical domination.

Deloria Jr 1999 [Vine, Theologian, legal scholar, JD, Ph.D, M.Div, standing rock Sioux, For This Land, 102-105

Example after example could be cited,,, our formulation of a picture of reality.

Further, Even attempts at benign energy formations like wind and solar leave massive destruction to native lands. Colonization becomes inherent in the practices of their energy politics

Awehali 2006 (Brian, “Native Energy Futures Renewable Energy, Sovereignty, and the New rush on Indian Lands”, LiP, MDA)

The Alaska tribal companies have, according to Scherer, … to, the very industry currently driving the planet to its doom.

This structure of thinking privileges western rationality above all else forming the basis of every form of domination and driving the possibilities of global destruction and endemic violence

Wilshire 2006 [Bruce, Bruce Wilshire is Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. For most of his career he has taught there, although he has also held positions at Purdue University and at New York University. He has served as Visiting Professor at Oberlin College, Colorado College, and at Texas A and M University , unlearning the language of conquest p 267-270

From this primal origin point emanate salient features …an audiotape from Osama bin Laden electrifi es and mobilizes the world).

Our alternative is to refuse the structure and form of thinking of the affirmative – the plan is a replication of the dominance of western thinking. We must challenge this framework of interpretation of reality and re-examine the basis of knowledge. We must not disavow our goals in service of simple reforms or the call to end suffering but must finally undo the basis of domination.

Deloria Jr 1999 [Vine, Theologian, legal scholar, JD, Ph.D, M.Div, standing rock Sioux, For This Land, p101-102]

If there were any serious concern about liberation we would see … background ofstudents on the basis of their applications for admission.

Our alternative pedagogically calls us to create an abolition of genocidal structures. Only this epistemological starting point can create an effective praxis that will betray the constant management of the effects of genocide in favor of a politics to abolish it. We must begin from the unflinching position that we don’t have to accept status quo structures.

Rodríguez 2010 [Dylan, “The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position” Radical Teacher number 88 August 1, 2010

Perhaps, then, there is no viable or defensible …dependent on our willingness to embrace this form of pedagogical audacity.

POST-OCCIDENTALISM VERSION 

Security imperatives that attempt to reduce reliance on foreign resources inevitably drive us to overconsume domestic resources on natives lands – no differentiation in their evidence – prefer ours – we have historical examples
Smith 2006 [Andrea, Conquest, P 178-180

Many Indian tribes came out in support of the U.S. … high-level nuclear waste repository on Yucca Mountain, which is on Western Shoshone lands. (See Chapter 3 for more details.)

The attempt to close the US off in terms of energy security is a violent American National Identity that forcloses political thought on the economy and lends itself to endemic violence.
Ciuta 2010 [Felix, senior lecturer of international relations at University College London SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. Conceptual Notes on Energy Security: Total or Banal Security? Security Dialogue 2010 41: 123

Even casual observers will be familiar with the … and growth is structured by the militarized pursuit of energy (Campbell, 2005: 952; Christophe Paillard in Luft and Paillard, 2007).

The privileging of social sciences as the basis for truth is a form of western domination that violently erases other culture and creates an inaccurate interpretation of reality.
Burke, Anthony 2007 [“Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason” Theory and Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007 ]

My argument here, whilst normatively sympathetic to Kant's moral …  help to end the global rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?

Their form of modernist politics privileges European culture at the center of world history subjecting the peripheral peoples to violence and genocides rendered inevitable and necessary in the name of civilization, rationality, science and philosophy. Their epistemology historically constructs guilt free motives to posit itself as the hero to the world thus justifying its redemptive sacrifice of guilty peoples
Mignolo 2000 [Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 0691001405 115-117
enrique Dussel, an Argentinian philosopher associated with … finds lis niche in postsubaltern reason as a differential locus of enunciation.
We advocate critical border thinking as our alternative. This redistribution of the geopolitics of knowledge starts from a different epistemic starting point to criticize the epistemological basis of the affirmative. This is critical to advancing space to subaltern epistemologies that challenge the ethnocidal foundations of modernity.
Mignolo 2000 [Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 0691001405]68-69
The second opposition Khatibi attempts to undo (after the opposition … addresses at the same time that it opens i new perspective for a geopolitical order of knowledge production.

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BROWNFIELDS VERSION

Existence has no foundation. The entire functional base of reality is absent. Nature does not exist. It is too imbedded with human interventions. Their understanding of how the natural world works is backwards due to past involvement in the environment. The plan is a retreat into the comfort of ecological salvation which is gone.

ZIZEK 2008 [Slavoj, In defense of Lost causes, isbn: 9781844671083, p 442-4 ]

Along these lines, "terror" means accepting the fact … confidence [. . . ] is originally, a nd truly, always a relationship with reality as a natural totality: as Nature.^^

The entirety of post-politics risk management completely evacuates the radical potential of the status quo in favor of highlighting and guaranteeing the reactionary base of liberal hegemony to all solutions.

Swyngedouw 2006 [Erik, Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition Erik Swyngedouw Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK erik.swyngedouw@man.ac.uk September 2006]

There is of course a close relationship between the post-political condition … global issues such as the environment, migration, or the use of natural resources” (Urbinati, 2003: 80).

Further, this construction and relationship to reality through fantasy is the foremost political question of the debate – massive violence is the product of their construction of the fantasy of reality – our strategy is the best approach to avoid it

Stavrakakis 99 [Yannis Stavrakakis, Visiting professor at the University of Essex, Lacan and the Political, pg.62-65]

Fantasy supports reality This signified function of the nodal point is not, however, solely reduced to its discursive position. It … on the symptom is revealed, then the play—the relation—between the symptom and fantasy reveals itself as another mode of the play between the real and the symbolic/imaginary nexus producing reality.

The affirmative’s energy management replicates the closure of the post-political climate. Its ideological divisions take even the most emancipatory of demands and reduce them to mere technical outcomes devoid of political potetntial. It is not a true political space but rather an attempt to close off dissensus.

Swyngedouw 2006 [Erik, Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition Erik Swyngedouw Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK erik.swyngedouw@man.ac.uk September 2006]

Slavoj Žižek and Chantal Mouffe, among others, define the post-political as a political formation that actually forecloses the political, …doing so, it does not translate Marx’s dictum for the contemporary period, but turns it into its radical travesty.

We must abandon the basis of the political inherent to the affirmative. The plan is misplaced intervention as part of the policy order – the alternative re-navigates the political possibilities of new actions by disavowing the tainted and old.

Swyngedouw 2011 [Erik, Depoliticized Environments: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the PostPolitical Condition, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement / Volume 69 / October 2011, pp 253 274 DOI: 10.1017/S1358246111000300, Published online: 22 September 2011

Taking the environmental and climatic catastrophe seriously … socio-ecological futures that express the democratic presumptions of freedom and equality.

APOCALYPSE VERSION

The imagination of the apocalypse produces a banality of catastrophe that destroys ethical engagement by disenchanting politics and life from one another. Their approach to politics produces a neurotic irrational citizenry ripe for the profiteering of disaster capitalism that manufactures scenarios for their impacts
De Goede and Randalls 2009 [ Marieke de Goede Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: m.degoede@uva.nl Samuel Randalls Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England; e-mail: s.randalls@ucl.ac.uk Received 19 February 2009; in revised form 27 March 2009, Precaution, preemption: arts and technologies of the actionable Future, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, pages 859 - 878
If humans are the ones to blame, then humans can also … Saddam Hussein and bin Laden a ``self-fulfilling prophecy''.
Our alternative is to retroactively transform the possibility of catastrophe as an unavoidable aspect of the past that has to be counterfactually responded to.
Vogt In 2009 [Erik, The Catastrophic Imperative Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought Edited by Dominiek Hoens Inn van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands Sigi Jottkandt Ian van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands and Gert Buelens Department of English, University of Ghent, Belgium, ISBN-13:978-0-230-55285-2 p 38-40
Thus one could, perhaps, say that the catastrophes of Adorno's j administered society, …possibilities that then form the basis for the actions in the present (p. 164).

Removing the future connotations to catastrophe disables the eschatological foundations of catastrophe
Biebuyck et al In 2009 [Benjamin, professor of German Literature at Ghent University, Belgium AND Gert Buelens, Ortwin de Graef, Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jottkand,The Catastrophic Imperative Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought Edited by Dominiek Hoens Inn van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands Sigi Jottkandt Ian van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands and Gert Buelens Department of English, University of Ghent, Belgium, ISBN-13:978-0-230-55285-2 p 3-4 ]

It is thus all the more urgent to state today that … have always been lived co-incident with eschatology in "the mean time."

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The “disadvantaged” are used as tools to spur clean up of brownfields then they are relocated

Stokes and Green 7 (Lance PhD CEO of ECI environmental consultants and engineers, Kenneth Chief scientists for ECI) http://www.ejconference2008.org/images/Green_Stokes.pdf)

“Disadvantaged” Communities have not and do not use … less affluent residents and owners of small businesses.

They can’t solve our turn. Racism lies within the cleanup process itself – the gov’t excludes African American owned contracting companies from the brownfield cleanup efforts

Stokes and Green 7 (Lance PhD CEO of ECI environmental consultants and engineers, Kenneth Chief scientists for ECI) http://www.ejconference2008.org/images/Green_Stokes.pdf)

Within the environmental injustice of brownfield gentrification.... This exclusion is a facilitator of brownfield gentrification.

Brownfield Redevelopment Reinforces Social Stratification – turns the aff

Fisher, 2011

(Benjamin Harrison, [Master of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University]"Brownfields redevelopment and gentrification: A socio-economic evaluation of the EPA Brownfields Pilot Program," Graduate Thesis and Dissertations Paper, 2011, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3040andcontext=etd, DJ).

Although the EPA-BPP was deemed a success … between brownfield redevelopment and gentrification.

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The resistance to colonialism via TERA restrictions is formulated along lines that are doomed to fail.  The very idea that there is an inside is what creates an outside.  It creates an inclusion into a socioeconomic order. The starting place of community and identity is drowning in the same violence they oppose. 

Karen Shimakawa (Professor University of California, Davis) 2004 The Things We Share: Ethnic Performativity and "Whatever Being", The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18.2 149-160
Elsewhere I've suggested that Asian Pacific Americanness (in mainstream representation) …is the event of an outside" (67, emphasis in original).

The affirmative cedes the power of inclusion to the law, which is based in metaphysics. Only if we stop giving law, this ability, will it cease to define what is right or wrong, what is included or what is excluded.
Zartaloudis 2005 Law and Critique v16:387-418

As she reminds us it is crucial to recall … or similarly for the formation of the Law (of law) as an ineffable depth.

Our alternative is “whatever being,” the singular being—an appreciation of forms of life without referent to an ends.  The removal of the power of the sovereign by not tying Native identity to inclusion within American political structures or energy policy.
Heesok Chang (Change Department of English Vassar College) Postmodern Culture September 1993
The basis of the coming community, the singular being, … a longing to belong. To a permanent disorientation. To oscillation. To whatever. 

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Race will be close – Romeny will win now – Cash advantage will allow him to win over independents in key battleground states – Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida
St. Louis Today 9/8 “Race may be down to a handful of unknowns”, http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/race-may-be-down-to-a-handful-of-unknowns/article_6f1a51d5-349b-53d1-a325-d9d6e9cec8c3.html
Flush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to …" Thursday. "He knows he's in trouble here."

Solar Energy policy can swing votes
Ken Thomas (writer for the Huffington Post) March 21 2012 “Obama Energy Policy: President, GOP Plunge Into Politics Of Gas Prices”, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/obama-energy-policy-gop-gas-prices_n_1370615.html#

MALJAMAR, N.M. — Wooing a nation …determined that that will be Obama.

Romney leads to restraint on the Palestinian peace process --- Obama is key to progress.
CNN, 7/18/2012, Second term Obama more likely to jump into peace process, Jordan’s king says, p. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/18/second-term-obama-more-likely-to-jump-into-peace-process-jordans-king-says/, accessed 8-19-2012
The delicate process of … first term of his presidency."

MOVING AWAY FROM THE TWO STATE SOLUTION IS THE ONLY MEANS TO PEACE – SEPARATION ONLY SPARKS CONFLICT – INTEGRATION EMPIRICALLY SOLVES
ALLISON BETH HODGKINS in 2004, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 28 Fletcher F. World Aff. 109, doctoral candidate in International Law, summer 2004-AC

Yet, the near universal endorsement … Road Map process appears to be faltering.

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The United States Supreme Court should rule that state restrictions on local solar siting are unconstitutional.

Courts defer to preemption and the executive branch now – new ruling is key to environmental federalism
Engel 2006 – Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (Kirsten H. “FILLING THE GAPS? ARTICLE: HARNESSING THE BENEFITS OF DYNAMIC FEDERALISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW,” 56 Emory L.J. 159)
The disconnect between the … structure of federal environmental law." n77

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Obama will win now – change in the status quo will reverse the trend
Peter Prime 10/4 “Latest Presidential Polls: Race is Tightening, But Obama Continues to Lead Where it Counts”,
http://www.policymic.com/articles/15808/latest-presidential-polls-race-is-tightening-but-obama-continues-to-lead-where-it-counts
The most recent polls from … are needed to win the presidency.

Plan reverses a successful economic strategy for Obama – swings working class voters  
Harwood ’12 (John, “The Electoral Math of Romney’s Stance on Trade With China”, March 22, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/politics/mitt-romneys-stance-on-china-trade.html?pagewanted=all, CMR)

Republican and Democratic strategists alike … United States government debt threatens American security.¶
b. They’re on the fence – key to re-election
AP 9/7/12 (“Romney, Obama battle for working-class whites”, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/07/romney-obama-battle-for-working-class-whites/, CMR)

DES MOINES, Iowa – President Barack Obama and Republican … into suddenly swing states in the final stretch.

Romney kills US-Russia relations --- overwhelms resilience.
The Economist, 9-1-2012, Romney Could Screw Up US Relations with Russia, Business Insider, p. www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-chops-come-into-light-2012-9, accessed 9-2-2012
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate in the US presidential …by malevolent, interfering Western powers.

Relations solve several scenarios for extinction
Allison and Blackwill, 11 --- * director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, AND senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and served as U.S. ambassador to India and as deputy national security adviser for strategic planning in the Bush administration (10/30/2011, Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, “10 reasons why Russia still matters,” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67178.html)

House Speaker John Boehner recently delivered  … failure, in advancing our national interests.

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The affirmative is a replication of a universal concept of humanity structured through ignorance of the colonial difference. Energy policy begs a different question than just a mere focus on production and consumption. Energy is the structure, the life-blood for the enactment of Eurocentric ideals. Only delinking from this epistemology by abandoning reformist attempts can a new starting point for politics be opened.

Mignolo 2006 Walter, Citizenship, Knowledge, and the Limits of Humanity American Literary History 18.2 (2006) 312-331
When the idea of "citizenship" came into view—and was linked to
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right, the left, and the center) took away from them.
Further, the affirmative’s approach to technology and production is not neutral but reifies a core tenet of Euro-American Identity: its claim to technological superiority. It is not a question of technology being good or inevitable but the way that the epistemic base of eurocentrism adopts it to provide certainty to its monopolistic claims.
Dinerstein 2006 Joel, Technology and Its Discontents: On the Verge of the Posthuman, muse, American Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 3
Technology has long been the unacknowledged source of European and Euro-American superiority within
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—sentences them to second-class status with regard to the future.

Evaluating our structures of thought is a paramount concern – thinking has material effects. The plan text is a replication of some of the most destructive formations of thinking in western history – their modification of energy policy reflects overconsumptive cultural formations and massive continuations of colonization on indigenous lands. Even attempts at benign energy formations like wind and solar leave massive destruction to native lands. Colonization becomes inherent in the practices of their energy politics

Awehali 2006 (Brian, “Native Energy Futures Renewable Energy, Sovereignty, and the New rush on Indian Lands”, LiP, MDA)

The Alaska tribal companies have, according to Scherer, “become a way for
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indebted to, the very industry currently driving the planet to its doom.

The role is the ballot is to affirm an ethic of diversality toward epistemology. Refusing the universality of the modernity is in itself an ethical praxis that refuses the foundation of racism and ethnocide.
Mignolo 2000 Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 069100140568-69

The second opposition Khatibi attempts to undo (after the opposition between the Christian West
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that it opens i new perspective for a geopolitical order of knowledge production.

Voting negative affirms the ethics of diversality by rejecting the pedagogical dominance of the plan’s approach to energy policy. This is an ongoing act of denying the monopoly to legitimacy of western thinking.
Kanth in 2005 (Rajani Kannepalli, Against Eurocentrism:  A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals 7-9

The task of debunking is ever an unattractive one, and quite alien to the
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though required, and important, is far from being either pleasant or enviable

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Nature does not exist but in the imagination. The affirmative takes the role of the environmental activist which superimposes a utopian concept of nature to relate policy through. Nature in the affirmative’s discourse is impossible, rather it is chaotic and unpredictably uncontrollable. Their base ontological relationship to nature ensures an obsessive reactionary politics bound to endlessly acting without altering the fundamental coordinates of society.
Swyngedouw 2006 Erik, Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition Erik Swyngedouw Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK erik.swyngedouw@man.ac.uk September 2006
Meanwhile, as some of the other examples attest, socio-environmental processes keep
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be achieved, and what sort of natures do we wish to inhabit. 

Discourses of climate change represent a fundamental victimage of humanity bound to an empty vacuous environmental enemy. The rhetoric of the environment is a prison-house of social constraints that eliminates subjectivity.
Swyngedouw 2010 Erik, Apocalypse Forever? : Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change, DOI: 10.1177/0263276409358728 Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 213
First, the climate change conundrum is not only portrayed as global, but is
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CO2, commodification and market exchange via carbon and carbon-offset trading).

We must abandon the basis of the political inherent to the affirmative. The affirmative is misplaced intervention as part of the policy order – the alternative re-navigates the political possibilities of new actions by disavowing the tainted and old.
Swyngedouw 2011 Erik, Depoliticized Environments: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the PostPolitical Condition, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement / Volume 69 / October 2011, pp 253 274 DOI: 10.1017/S1358246111000300, Published online: 22 September 2011
Taking the environmental and climatic catastrophe seriously requires exploding the infernal process of de-
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socio-ecological futures that express the democratic presumptions of freedom and equality.

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Econ Adv

No global economic collapse and it wouldn’t cause conflict
Drezner ’11 (Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, 8-12-2011, “Please come down off the ledge, dear readers,” Foreign polivy, http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/, CMR)

So, when we last left off this debate, things were looking grim.
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, based on the data we've got, that's not going to happen. 

US isn’t key to the global economy – prefer expert consensus
Vejil ’10 David, “Global Economy Becoming Immune to U.S. Downturns”, 10-5,  http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7524.6091.0.0

Is the global economy becoming immune to U.S. economic downturns? According
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New York’s Columbia University, in a September 20 Bloomberg interview in Zurich.

Warming Adv

Climate impacts are overyhyped, nothing will happen for 300 years and even then it won’t be that bad, tech solves in the meantime
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

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

No anthropogenic warming – WE control quals, bias and recency
Burnett, 2-22-12 – Sterling, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Environment and Energy at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), “Fraud and Heartland: A Scandal for Climate Alarmists, not Skeptics,” http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/fraud-and-heartland-a-scandal-for-climate-alarmists-not-skeptics/, brubaie
Sadly (for him), Peter Gleick, the researcher at issue, could have obtained a good deal of the information he sought through a request for Heartland’s 990, a tax document that non-profits have to provide to any who request it. Rather than going through legitimate channels to obtain what information he could or, better still, questioning the veracity of the initial document he received — and there were many reasons to question that document, among them the fact that it was delivered to him anonymously — using someone else’s name, a Heartland board member — he requested internal documents. 

Despite all the sound and fury surrounding this episode over the last week, really
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,” behind global warming skepticism. Who says the Progressive era has passed?

---No impact – media and scientists exaggerate catastrophic warming   
Spencer’8 – climatologist and a Principal Research Scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Roy W, Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites, “Climate Confusion”, page number below

The media can always find an expert who is willing to provide some juicy quotes
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gives him hope of breaking the big story.  25-26

--No impact to warming
Taylor 11—senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment and Climate News (27 July 2011, James, New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/) CMR

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

A2 Diseases

No consensus on warming –  disproves disease
Bast and Taylor ’11 (Joseph, President and CEO, The Heartland Institute, James M Taylor, Senior Fellow Env. Policy @ Heartland Institute, “Global Warming: Not a Crisis”, Aug 2, http://heartland.org/experts, retrieved June 14, 2012, CMR) 

Isn’t There a Consensus? Science doesn’t advance by “consensus.” A single scientist
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are right to ask why we should believe global warming is a crisis.

Infectious diseases can’t cause extinction – population density mitigates virulence through resistance
Wynne Parry 11, 2/2/11, Live Science Staff Writer, “Article: Theory About Mammals and Fungus Explains Bat Plague”, http://www.livescience.com/11705-theory-mammals-fungus-explains-bat-plague.html
Even highly virulent infectious disease does not cause extinctions – because as population density decreases
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all caused by some pathogen," Robertson wrote in an e-mail.

A2 Resource Wars

No resource wars—humans adapt and new tech solves—their studies are wrong
Thomas Bernauer et al 10 is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich, Ms. Anna Kalbhenn is PhD candidate at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Zurich *Vally Koubi is a senior fellow at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich  Gabriele Ruoff is postdoctoral researcher in the “International Political Economy” group of Thomas Bernauer at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Conflict climsec.prio.no/papers/Climate_Conflict_BKKR_Trondheim_2010.pdf
Other scholars, commonly referred to as cornucopians or resource optimists, do not share
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as economic development and the political system characteristics may thus have been overlooked. 

A2 Coral Reefs/Biodiversity

Coral reefs adapt to climate change.
Baker ’04 Andrew, PhD/Scientist from University of Miami, Aug 11, “Coral reefs:  Corals' adaptive response to climate change,” http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v430/n7001/full/430741a.html

The long-term response of coral reefs to climate change depends on the ability
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on these reefs more closely resemble those found in high-temperature environments.

No impact to biodiversity
Sagoff 97 Mark, Senior Research Scholar – Institute for Philosophy and Public policy in School of Public Affairs – U. Maryland, William and Mary Law Review, “INSTITUTE OF BILL OF RIGHTS LAW SYMPOSIUM DEFINING TAKINGS: PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE FUTURE OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION: MUDDLE OR MUDDLE THROUGH? TAKINGS JURISPRUDENCE MEETS THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT”, 38 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 825, March, L/N
Note – Colin Tudge - Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Frmr Zoological Society of London: Scientific Fellow and tons of other positions. PhD. Read zoology at Cambridge.
Simon Levin = Moffet Professor of Biology, Princeton. 2007 American Institute of Biological Sciences Distinguished Scientist Award 2008 Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti 2009 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Michigan State University 2010 Eminent Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America 2010 Margalef Prize in Ecology, etc… PhD 

Although one may agree with ecologists such as Ehrlich and Raven that the earth stands
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sense, good for mankind. The most valuable things are quite useless.

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Solvency
1 Wind fails-often shut down and can’t meet peak demand.
Tupi 10
(Brad, Brad Tupi is 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, “WIND ENERGY IS NOT THE ANSWER”, 2010, http://www.jvas.org/pdf_files/Wind_Energy_Not_Answer.pdf, Accessed 8/29/12)
A coal-fired power plant will generate electricity 24/7/365.
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. Because it is intermittent, wind energy cannot meet this basic requirement.
2 No Solvency – Inadequate transmission capacity limits wind energy
David Englander June 17, 2008
“Blowing in the wind Investing in the wind power industry could pay off, but risks remain” Englander is a Market Watch Reporter http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investing-wind-power-industry-may-pay/story.aspx?guid=%7B9F8BB4FE-30CB-4FB7-B80B-35B5C5E3F2E7%7Danddist=msr_1
Transmission is perhaps the single greatest problem that faces wind growth - and it was
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in their backyard, so you have to decide where to put them."
3 Won’t solve energy output – their evidence overestimates
Bell 11
(Larry– professor at the University of Houston and author (“Wind Energy's Overblown Prospects”, 3/8, http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/03/08/wind-energys-overblown-prospects/, )
The report, drawn up by its national laboratories said that meeting this target presumed
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if merely a minor percentage of that technical feasibility provides electricity when needed.
To be extremely optimistic, let’s assume that actual average output would be 25% of that projected installed capacity. In that case, the real output would be less than 5% of the country’s electricity, and more realistically, about half of even that amount under optimistic circumstances.
Output volatility due to wind’s intermittency varies greatly according to location and time of year, typically ranging from 0% to about 50%. Texas, one of the most promising wind energy states, averages about 16.8% of installed capacity, yet the Electric Reliability Council of Texas assigns a value of 10% due to unpredictability. Only about 20% of that capacity is generally available during peak demand periods (about 5:00pm), while average generation during off-peak time averages about 40% of capacity.
4 Local backlash insures failure.
Lomborg ’12
(– director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School (Bjørn, “Wind Falls”, March 21, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/project_syndicate/2012/03/lomborg_wind_power_is_cheap_only_compared_with_other_alternative_energies_.single.html, )
In fact, this is a highly problematic claim. While wind energy is cheaper
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Complaints have also increased about enormous new wind turbines’ low-frequency noise.
5 PTCs don’t solve their scenarios  It is on the books now and hasn’t solved their impacts.
6 PTC doesn’t promote wind growth.
– state policies fill-in – previous growth due to grant funding, not ptc – low natural gas prices
– uniformity = inefficient – competitive companies succeed w/o ptc
Linowes ’12
– BS in Software Science from Rochester Institute of Technology, Masters in Business Administration, director of Industrial Wind Action (“Impact of Tax Policies on the Commercial Application of Renewable Energy Technology”, House Testimony, April 19, http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/hearings/HHRG-112-SY21-WState-LLinowes-20120419.pdf, )
a. The Production Tax Credit
The AWEA insists the industry is at risk of a slow-down if Congress
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utilities routinely sign long-term power contracts at prices significantly above market.
7 Alt cause: The success of wind is determined by the price of fossil fuels not tax credits
HINMAN 2009
(JEFFRY S. HINMAN J.D., University of Oregon School of Law “The Green Economic Recovery: Wind Energy¶ Tax Policy After Financial Crisis and the¶ American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act” J. ENVTL. LAW AND LITIGATION Vol. 24, 35 http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/232/Hinman.pdf)
Another factor that created a better atmosphere for investing in wind energy between 2004 and
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between 2007 and 2009, the nation’s¶ cumulative wind capacity doubled.