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Elections DA

Obama wins now – prediction markets prove

InTrade 9/22
~[2012, http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474~~]cn
Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012
71.6%  CHANCE
Last prediction was: %247.16 / share
Today’s Change:   +%240.17 (+2.4%)
Contract Type: 0-100  

Prefer prediction markets – they’re empirically the most accurate

Luskin 4 – Donald, chief investment officer of Trend Macrolytics LLC, an independent economics and investment-research firm
~[Oct. 8, The Bet’s on Bush, http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin200410080821.asp~~]
Standing above today’s proliferation of competing and contradictory political polls, there’s only one type
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that over one of the polls run by the liberal media any day.

Nuclear power demoralizes the base, even if solves warming

Dears 12 – Donn, fellow at the George C. Marshall Institute, former GE Company executive
~[6/8, http://www.westernjournalism.com/author/donn-dears/~~]gw
Why Environmentalists Are Wrong About Nuclear Power. It’s an amazing irony that the only
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CO2 emissions must be cut in the United States 80% by 2050.

Obama loss triggers war with Iran, MidEast instability, and oil shocks

Curiel 10 – Jonathan, Professor of Journalism @ UCLA
~[7-28, http://trueslant.com/jonathancuriel/2010/07/28/what-just-might-happen-if-obama-loses-in-2012/~~]cn
Less than four months from now, the mid-term elections will determine if
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historically – become the world’s leading front for insurgency against the United States.

Escalates to global nuclear war

Hirsch 5 – Jorge, physics professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago
~[Nov 21, http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8089~~]cn
The Bush administration has put together all the elements it needs to justify the impending
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, enough to erase Earth’s population many times over.

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GOP will attach Keystone to the next energy bill that comes to a vote

Menton 12 – Jessica, writer for the International Business Times
~[Jan 30, http://tv.ibtimes.com/senate-aims-to-bypass-obama-on-keystone-pipeline/3279.html~~]cn
"This new bill is a lot like the old one, but it makes
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project is not approved by the time the bill comes to a vote.

Fiat means the plan is a must-pass bill – that ensures Keystone gets attached and passed (even if it’s unpopular)

Wallace 12 – John W., writer and businessman
~[Acc. Aug 19, 2012, Position Paper: Single Issue Legislation, http://www.nyoathkeeper.com/PositionPaper-SingleIssueLegislation.pdf~~]cn
For those unfamiliar with how legislation is passed in Congress, here’s a short example
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is almost certain to be approved, because the budget must be passed%21

The Keystone will inevitably leak, destroying the Ogallala aquifer

Dembicki 10 – Geoff, journalist who reports on energy and climate change
~[Jun 21, "Golf Disaster Raises Alarm about Alberta to Texas Pipeline," http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/06/21/AlbertaToTexasPipeline~~]cn
In a series of public hearings over recent weeks, farmers and ranchers have fretted
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a "quarter-size" hole into a Salt Lake City creek.

This causes depletion of the Great Lakes, triggering global water shortages and war

Rochester 2k – Rochester Democrat %26 Chronicle
~[Feb 6~]bg
Those moves reflect a growing realization that water will become a rare and fought-
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won’t let you take their water. Without it they have no future."

These wars will go nuclear and cause extinction

NASCA 4 – National Association for Scientific and Cultural Appreciation
~["Water shortages – only a matter of time," http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html~~]bg
Water is one of the prime essentials for life as we know it. The
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find ourselves with a nightmare situation for which there will be no obvious answer

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Plan: The United States Supreme Court should rule that the Posterity Clause requires the United States Federal Government to ...

Court ruling ensures compliance and change – 4 reasons

Devins 92 – Neal, Professor of Law and Lecturer in Government, College of William and Mary
~[80 Calif. L. Rev. 1027~]
Four things are not in debate, all of which speak to a significant —
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appointed special masters can work with community leaders to forge successful desegregation plans.

Doesn’t link to elections

Ting 9 – Jan, Professor of Law @ Temple University and Former Assistant Commissioner @ INS
~[June, http://www.cis.org/Transcript/PlenaryPowerPanel~~]cn
And to me that’s sort of a backhanded way, and a much more sophisticated
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? If they want to do that, that’s what they’ve got to do

Posterity Clause ruling on the plan would establish intergenerational standing – key to prevent extinction

Davidson 3 – John Edward, J.D., Professor of Constitutional Law, Pioneer Pacific College; Senior Research Fellow, Constitutional Law Foundation
~["Tomorrow’s Standing Today: How the Equitable Jurisdiction Clause of Article III, Section 2 Confers Standing Upon Future Generations," 28 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 185, LEXIS~]cn
We deplete freshwater aquifers many times faster than nature can replenish them. 4 We
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rights in the absence of any more specific congressional authorization than 1331. 26

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Renewable energy market expected to continue expanding

Bloomberg 11- Global Renewable Energy Market Outlook
~[Executive Summary, New Energy Finance, 11/16/2011, pg. 1-2~]ip
Global investment in renewable energy has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by concerns
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the effects of the rapid expansion in renewables over the previous years. \

All incentives for carbon fuels kill support for renewable energy

Kauffman 10- Richard, senior advisor to the Secretary of Energy
~["Obstacles to Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency", From Silos to Systems: Issues in Clean Energy and Climate Change, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, p. 22-23~]ip
Renewables are expensive relative to traditional forms of energy. But the playing field isn’t
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of putting renewable energy and energy efficiency on a level market playing field.

Renewable energy investments key to solving global warming, economy

Cheeseman 12- Gina-Marie, social justice journalist
~["Why the World Needs To Increase Renewable Energy Investment", behindcurrentevents, 6/13/2012, http://behindcurrentevents.com/archives/150~~]ip
The world is on track to see a temperature increase of over 3.5
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will hold true, not just for other states, but the world.