| 1 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Technical approaches to alternative energy put the cart before the horse – confronting the forms of social organization which constitute methods of production is a necessary precondition to sustainable solutions
Christ 7 (Eileen, Assistant Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia PolytechnicInstitute, Winter, “Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse,” Telos 141, Winter 2007, www.sts.vt.edu/faculty/crist/Beyond_the_Climate_Crisis.pdf)
While the dangers of ... of life on Earth. The impact is extinction – enables continued reactionary violence and environmental destruction in the name of continued economic growth
Byrne and Toley 6 (John – Head of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy – It’s a leading institution for interdisciplinary graduate education, research, and advocacy in energy and environmental policy – John is also a Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Toley – Directs the Urban Studies and Wheaton in Chicago programs - Selected to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program for 2011-2013 - expertise includes issues related to urban and environmental politics, global cities, and public policy, “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” p. 1-32)
From climate change to ... and sustainable energy futures. Vote neg - methodological investigation is a prior question to the aff – strict policy focus creates a myth of objectivity that sustains a violent business-as-usual approach
Scrase and Ockwell 10 (J. Ivan - Sussex Energy Group, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, David G - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, SPRU, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, “The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction,” Energy Policy: Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 2225–2233)
The way in which ... in detail further below). |
| 2 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: Nuclear tech optimism is predicated on emphasizing benefits of nuclear power while obscuring the structural impacts
Byrne and Toley 6 (John – Head of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy – It’s a leading institution for interdisciplinary graduate education, research, and advocacy in energy and environmental policy – John is also a Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Toley – Directs the Urban Studies and Wheaton in Chicago programs - Selected to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program for 2011-2013 - expertise includes issues related to urban and environmental politics, global cities, and public policy, “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” p. 1-32)
Giant Power Revivalism Life ... grounds is surely suspect (Byrne and Hoffman, 1996). The impact is extinction – Nuclear power exports violence to the periphery in the form of reactionary nuclear wars and environmental destruction
Byrne and Toley 6 (John – Head of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy – It’s a leading institution for interdisciplinary graduate education, research, and advocacy in energy and environmental policy – John is also a Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Toley – Directs the Urban Studies and Wheaton in Chicago programs - Selected to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program for 2011-2013 - expertise includes issues related to urban and environmental politics, global cities, and public policy, “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” p. 1-32)
From climate change to ... and sustainable energy futures. Vote neg - methodological investigation is a prior question to the aff – strict policy focus creates a myth of objectivity that sustains a violent business-as-usual approach
Scrase and Ockwell 10 (J. Ivan - Sussex Energy Group, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, David G - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, SPRU, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, “The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction,” Energy Policy: Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 2225–2233)
The way in which ... in detail further below). |
| 5 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology should direct the Department of Energy to include a Quadrennial Energy Review as an addendum to the Quadrennial Technology Review. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology should direct the Department of Energy to include a recommendation to substantially increase financial support for fusion energy research and development in the United States as part of the Quadrennial Energy Review. DOE recommendations cause enactment – AND – Even if it fails – private actors will change their behavior
DOE 11 (REPORTandONandTHEandFIRST QUADRENNIAL QTR TECHNOLOGY!REVIEW, http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/ReportOnTheFirstQTR.pdf)
An important finding of ... support the Department’s investments. This recommendation will get enacted after the election and the counterplan trades-off political points necessary to enact other initiatives in the QTR
Tollefson -11 (Jeff Tollefson, DOE releases first Quadrennial Technology Review, September 27, 2011, http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/09/doe_releases_first_quadrennial_1.html)
The US Department of Energy ... from a 2005 baseline. This trade-off would occur with biofuels
Fuel Cell Insider 11 (DOE Quadrennial Technology Review Gets Stakeholder Input, http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/?p=615)
Hydrogen fuel cells were ... host of energy options. US lead in biofuels would cause extinction
Ziegler 12 (Fuelling World Hunger: How The Global Biofuel Industry Is Creating Massive Destruction, Jean, http://www.infowars.com/fuelling-world-hunger-how-the-global-biofuel-industry-is-creating-massive-destruction/)
The global expansion of ... out of the inferno. |
| 6 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: Disease outbreaks solidify the BWC.
Stephen Kaufman, IIP Staff Writer December 10, 2010. Biological Weapons Pact Offers Cooperation Against Pandemics, http://geneva.usmission.gov/2010/12/10/biological-weapons-pact-offers-cooperation-against-pandemics/
Kennedy said the parties ... country around the world.”
Effective BWC solves bioterror and the terminal impact of their disease claims
Graham S. Pearson, Visiting Professor of International Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, June 2001. The Regime To Prevent Biological Weapons: Opportunities For A Safer, Healthier, More Prosperous World, http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/other/BTWCrgime.pdf
When a wider perspective ... both developed or developing. Extinction – different type of agent than their disease argument assumes
Ochs MA in Natural Resource Management 02 –from Rutgers University and Naturalist at Grand Teton National Park Richard, “BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY,” Jun 9, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html
Of all the weapons ... EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE. Bioterror prompts nuclear retaliation and international testing
IRC (11-20-2001, “How should the U.S. prepare for possible attacks using biological and chemical weapons?” IRC, http://www.fpif.org/faq/0111bioterror.html)
Nuclear deterrence is a ... U.S. a pariah state. Retaliation escalates to global nuclear war
Speice ‘6 (Patrick F. Jr., JD Candidate @ College of William and Mary “NEGLIGENCE AND NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION: ELIMINATING THE CURRENT LIABILITY BARRIER TO BILATERAL U.S.-RUSSIAN NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,” February 47 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1427
The potential consequences of ... use of nuclear weapons. Testing kills everybody, unethical genocide
Masahide Kato 93 – Professor of political science at UN Hawaii – 1993 Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites and Nuclear War Via the Strategic Gaze
Herein, the perception of ... battle against nature itself. |
| 3 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge:
Energy production policy is grounded within a global system of inequality and militarism – Enables continued reactionary violence and environmental destruction
Byrne and Toley 6 (John – Head of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy – It’s a leading institution for interdisciplinary graduate education, research, and advocacy in energy and environmental policy – John is also a Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Toley – Directs the Urban Studies and Wheaton in Chicago programs - Selected to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program for 2011-2013 - expertise includes issues related to urban and environmental politics, global cities, and public policy, “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” p. 1-32)
From climate change to ... demands a life-sustaining environment. The impact is Extinction – The K turns and solves the root cause of their environment/resources impacts – the aff causes error replication
Ahmed 12 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis
The twenty-first century heralds ... culminate in violent conflict. Vote neg - methodological investigation is a prior question to the aff – strict policy focus creates a myth of objectivity that sustains a violent business-as-usual approach
Scrase and Ockwell 10 (J. Ivan - Sussex Energy Group, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, David G - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, SPRU, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, “The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction,” Energy Policy: Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 2225–2233)
The way in which ... in detail further below). |
| 7 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge:
Economic collapse is inevitable – it forces a transition to sustainable communities – we indict your authors
Brownlee 10 – This essay was adapted from a presentation at Xavier University in Cincinnati on Nov. 7, 2010, as part of a lecture series on Ethics, Religion, and Society (Michael, 11/30, “The Evolution Of Transition In The U.S,” http://countercurrents.org/brownlee301110.htm)
Here, we need to ... in a larger Universe. Collapse now allows us to survive, but delay risks multiple scenarios for extinction
Barry 8 – Ph.D. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters of Science in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development also from Madison, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Marquette University (Glen, 01/14, “Economic Collapse And Global Ecology,” http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm)
Humanity and the Earth ... final, fatal death swoon. Growth causes worse wars with bio and nanoweapons
Zakaria 11 – Economic Consultant at Sageconsulting Sdn Bhd. Malaysia (Ahmad Zaki, 09/13, “The five generations of warfare,” http://recognitia.blogspot.com/2011/09/five-generations-of-warfare.html)
Advances in warfare usually ... maintaining the status quo. Bioweapons cause extinction
Broyles 5 – Senior editor (Janell, “Chemical and Biological Weapons in a Post-9/11 World,” http://janellbroyles.com/chemical-and-biological-weapons-in-a-post-911-world/)
Weapons of mass destruction ...spread them to others. Nanoweapons outweigh
Vassar 6 – Head of the Long-Term Strategy Division (Michael, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Head of the Nanomedicine Division, with participation by Amara D. Angelica, Philippe Van Nedervelde, Mike Treder, and other Scientific Advisory Board members, “Lifeboat Foundation NanoShield Version 0.90.2.13,” http://lifeboat.com/ex/nano.shield)
Molecular manufacturing also raises ... regional conflict blowing up. |
| 8 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge: Their analysis of Iran prolif is flawed – rationality, nuclear deterrence and defense posture check escalation
Waltz 12 – Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University (Kenneth N., Jul/Aug, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” EBSCO)
UNFOUNDED FEARS One reason ... would break this mold. Empirics disprove their impact – Iran prolif is key to regional and global stability
Waltz 12 – Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University (Kenneth N., Jul/Aug, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” EBSCO)
The third possible outcome ... military power is restored. The impact is extinction
Russell 9 (James A. Russell, Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, ‘9 (Spring)
“Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East” IFRI, Proliferation Papers, #26, http://www.ifri.org/downloads/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf__)
Strategic stability in the ... for the entire world. |
| 9 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge: The United States Supreme Court should rule restrictions on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf 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 ... of federal environmental law." n77 Agency deference destroys efficient production – stable legal interpretation is key to industry innovation
Buzbee 2010 – Professor of Law, Emory Law School; Director of Emory Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program; Director of Emory Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance (William, New Directions in Environmental Law: Clean Air Act Dynamism and Disappointments: Lessons for Climate Legislation to Prompt Innovation and Discourage Inertia, 32 Wash. U. J.L. and Pol'y 33, Lexis)
If an environmental law ... established modes of action. |
| 10 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 8 | Opponent: | Judge:
The United States Federal Government should: • provide diminishing licensing contracts for the procurement of small modular reactors on its military bases, but the small modular reactors must become cost competitive within (x months) and the small modular reactors improve in price and performance in order to continually receive this incentive. • reduce licensing contracts as small modular reactors improve in price and performance. This evidence substantiates our CP text – we’ll insert it into the debate
JENKINS ’12 - Director of Energy And Climate Policy Breakthrough Institute (Jenkins, Jesse D. “TESTIMONY OF JESSE D. JENKINS DIRECTOR OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE.” May 22, 2012. http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=31b79a1a-83a0-4ae6-8c80-30fe754ad0ea)
Recognizing that investment horizons ... broader private capital markets. Solves all of the aff and avoids our DAs
HAYWARD et al ’10 - Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; Senior Fellow, AEI (Hayward, Steven F. Mark Muro. Ted Nordhaus. Michael Shellenberger. “POST-PARTISAN POWER”. October, 2010. http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)
The government has a ... energy technologies are commercialized. Only the CP can solve the energy bubble – the impact is economic collapse
SWEZEY ‘11 - project director for Breakthrough Institute (“Clean Tech Sector Heading for a Major Crash”. July 11, 2011. http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=14600andprint=1)
The global clean energy ... multi-trillion dollar energy market. Global war – diversionary theory’s true
ROYAL ‘10 – Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)
Less intuitive is how ... ancillary to those views. |
| 11 | 09/27/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 8 | Opponent: | Judge: Plan moves the US away from oil – lowers prices
ROBERTSON ‘11 - Villanova University, Adjunct Professor; founder and editor-in-chief of Casavaria (“Nuclear Power and Offshore Drilling May Keep Oil Prices Artificially High”. October 20, 2011. http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2011/10/20/1474/nuclear-power-offshore-drilling-may-keep-oil-prices-artificially-high/)
Now, given the intense ... wind and solar power. Decreasing prices crushes the alternative energy transition and causes climate change
HUAG ’11 - Former Director at the International Energy Agency; educated at Harvard; chairs the Advisory Group on Energy of the EC and is Senior Research Advisor at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (Huag, Marianne. “Clean energy and international oil”. November 1, 2011. http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/1/92.abstract)
Developing and commercializing clean ... backstop technologies for oil. Warming is anthropogenic and causes extinction
DEIBEL ‘7 - Professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy (Terry L. Deibel, “Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2”)
Finally, there is one ... life on this planet. |
| 12 | 10/11/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
The United States Department of Defense should:
Procure the relevant technologies for companies to build Integral Fast Reactors in accordance with its Research Development Test and Evaluation program
And promote it by sponsoring a public demonstration program The CP is competitive and solves better ---- need to move away from DOE-sponsored financial incentives to DOD procurement
COHEN et al ‘9 - co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force; honors graduate of Harvard Law School; led the Conservation Law Foundation's Energy Project (Cohen, Armond. “Innovation Policy for Climate Change”. September, 2009. http://www.cspo.org/projects/eisbu/report.pdf)
To improve government performance ... at full plant scale. Funding for fusion is on the chopping block – key to solve energy security and nuclear meltdowns
ASP 12 – The American Security Project is a bipartisan initiative to educate the American public about the changing nature of national security in the 21st century (08/03, “Nick Cunningham and Andrew Holland: Through Innovation and Investment, U.S. Can Lead in Next-Generation Energy,” http://americansecurityproject.org/featured-items/2012/nick-cunningham-and-andrew-holland-through-innovation-and-investment-u-s-can-lead-in-next-generation-energy/)
In a recent Op-ed ... fission reactors of today. Plan trades off
Muro 11 – Senior Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program (Mark, 02/16, “Around the Halls: 'Cut to Invest' at the Department of Energy,” http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2011/02/16-budget-energy-muro)
The Obama administration’s FY ... and the subsidy system. Energy security solves great power war
Luft 4, Director of the Washington D.C. based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (Gal, Los Angeles Times, “U.S., China on Collision Course Over Oil” February 2, http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/02/opinion/oe-luft2, Date accessed: July 2, 2008)
Sixty-seven years ago ... slide into total dependency. Meltdowns cause extinction
Wasserman 1 (Harvey, Senior Editor – Free Press, “America's Terrorist Nuclear Threat to Itself”, October, http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2001/10/00_wasserman_nuclear-threat.htm)
The assault would not ... must be shut down. |
| 13 | 10/11/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
NNSA stemming human capital shortages- plan trades off- no link turns
Aloise, 12 -- GAO Nuclear Security, Safety, and Nonproliferation director
(Gene, former GAO Assistant Director for Report and Testimony Quality Control, "Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: Strategies and Challenges in Sustaining Critical Skills in Federal and Contractor Workforces," Government Accountability Office, GAO-12-468, April 2012, http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590488.pdf, accessed 9-4-12, mss)
The enterprise’s work environments ... and make appropriate adjustments. Plan trades off- its zero-sum
Lorentzen, 8 -- Human Sciences Research Council chief research specialist
(Jo, PhD from the European University Institute in Italy, worked at universities and research institutes in Europe and in the US for a decade during which he taught courses on international business and economic development, and Il-Haam Petersen "Human Capital Dynamics in Three Technology Platforms: Nuclear, Space and Biotechnology," March 2008, https://www.labour.gov.za/downloads/documents/research-documents/Technology%20Platforms.pdf, accessed 9-6-12, mss)
For the new build ... makes up its consortium. NNSA human capital key to solve disease
D'Agostino, 10 – U.S. Under Secretary for Nuclear Security
(Thomas, former Stockpile Stewardship Program director, "NNSA Administrator Addresses Next Generation of Computational Scientists," 6-22-10, www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/speeches/csgfremarks062210, accessed 9-4-12, mss)
Since I spoke to ... rest of the Department. Extinction
Keating, 9 -- Foreign Policy web editor
(Joshua, "The End of the World," Foreign Policy, 11-13-9, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, accessed 9-7-12, mss)
How it could happen ... just as troubling complication. |
| 14 | 10/11/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: | Judge:
Korea war inevitable – the North will lose and collapse now, but delay risks worse wars in the future
Prepper News 10 (Accessed March 2011, “North Korea is not MAD, They’re Suicidal,” http://www.knifeden.com/north_korea_suicidal.html)
With North Korea’s recent ... attacked South Korea anyway's. North Korea is developing ICBMs to strike the U.S. within 5 years
Gearan 11 chief diplomatic correspondent for The Associated Press (Anne, 01/11, “North Korea Will Pose Direct Threat To U.S.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/robert-gates-north-korea-threat_n_807222.html)
BEIJING — North Korea's development ... into account," Gates said.
The impact is nuclear war
Mistry 3 – assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati (Dinshaw, “Containing missile proliferation”, Google Books, pages 9-12, WEA)
Thus the missile threat ... the stability of deterrence. North Korea will detonate nukes in outer space
Rupee News 10 (“Pakistani Nukes: Youm e Takbir defiantly screams œDont Mess with us,” May 28, Lexis) Crowe
œOur military first policy ... evaporating its key targets. That causes WMD wars
Mitchell 1 member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Working Group on Theater Missile Defenses in the Asia-Pacific Region (Gordon, “Japan-U.S. Missile Defense Collaboration: Rhetorically Delicious, Deceptively Dangerous,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter, pages 97-98, www.pitt.edu/gordonm/JPubs/JapanTMD.pdf)
It is chilling to ... military conflict ever seen. Taking over North Korea key to secure against terrorism
Carter and Perry ‘6 (Ashton B. Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard, AND William J., Professor at Stanford and former Secretary of Defense, “The Case for a Preemptive Strike on North Korea's Missiles,” July 8, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1211527,00.html)
For the U.S., the ... get its loose nukes? Terrorism leads to extinction
Speice ‘6 (Patrick F. Jr., JD Candidate @ College of William and Mary “NEGLIGENCE AND NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION: ELIMINATING THE CURRENT LIABILITY BARRIER TO BILATERAL U.S.-RUSSIAN NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,” February 47 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1427
Accordingly, there is a ... use of nuclear weapons. |
| 15 | 01/26/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Ice age inevitable – CO2 is key to survival
Marsh 12 – retired physicist from the Argonne National Laboratory and a former consultant to the Department of Defense on strategic nuclear technology and policy in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administration (Gerald E., “The Coming of a New Ice Age,” http://www.winningreen.com/site/epage/59549_621.htm)
CHICAGO — Contrary to the ... a will-o-the-wisp. Solving warming locks in a permanent Ice Age – outweighs the case
Hoyle 99 – former Director of The Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge (Fred, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Professor at Cardiff University and Honorary Professor at the University of Buckingham, July, “ON THE CAUSE OF ICE-AGES,” http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/ce120799.html)
"The renewal of ice-age ... back into an ice-age. Outweighs all impacts
Whitehouse 12 – science adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (David, 01/11, “Could rising CO2 levels help prevent the next ice age?” http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1338/could-rising-co2-levels-help-prevent-the-next-ice-age)
That the trees no ... environmentalists are erroneously advocating." Ice age comparatively outweighs their warming impacts – it’s also irreversible and ensures extinction by 2027
Chapman 8 – geophysicist, astronautical engineer, NASA astronaut (Phil, 05/20, “Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh,” http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20082105-17356.html)
There is no doubt ... incomprehensible stretch of time. It’ll happen quickly and soon
Scotsman 8 – Edinburgh news, cites the German Research Centre for Geosciences (08/01, “Last Ice Age happened in less than year say scientists,” http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/last-ice-age-happened-in-less-than-year-say-scientists-1-1083252)
THE last ice age ... region to be reconstructed. Turns their war impacts by 2014
Aym 10 – Salem-News Contributor based in Chicago, cites The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (Terrance, 12/06, “Earth may be entering a new Ice Age, Food shortages may lead to regional warfare,” http://www.iceagenow.com/Earth_may_be_entering_a_new_Ice_Age.htm)
6 Dec 10 - Astrophysicist ... mass migrations," says Aym. Their sources exaggerate to secure funding
Roche 3 (Dr Roche, whose PhD in agricultural science is from University College, Dublin, The Daily News (New Plymouth, New Zealand), September 25, 2003
"The point is further ... events on the increase. Every CO2 particle is a life
Watts 12 (Anthony Watts, American meteorologist, president of IntelliWeather Inc., editor of the blog, Watts Up With That?, and founder of the Surface Stations Project, “Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age”, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/08/increased-co2-emissions-will-delay-next-ice-age/, January 8, 2012)
Sir Fred Hoyle Vindicated ... environmentalists are erroneously advocating. Earth is overdue for an ice age – it will happen soon without continued CO2 levels
Boyle 12 – Popular Science (Rebecca, 01/08, “Human CO2 Emissions Could Avert the Next Ice Age, Study Says,” http://thegwpf.org/science-news/4714-human-co2-emissions-could-avert-the-next-ice-age-study-says.html)
Earth could be entering ... warming,” the authors conclude. Our ev is backed by the most recent and best data
Amos 12 – Science correspondent, BBC News (Jonathon, 04/04, “CO2 'drove end to last ice age',” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17611404)
A new, detailed record ... of its glaciated state. |
| 16 | 02/16/2013 | Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 5 | Opponent: | Judge:
Neodymium supplies necessary for wind are limited now but demand is keeping pace – the plan causes massive bottlenecks and price spikes. We are 100% dependent on China.
Cho 9-20 (Cho, analyst and reporter for Phys.org "rare earth metals: will we have enough?" September 20, 2012 phys.org/news/2012-09-rare-earth-metals.html
"To provide most of ... it did in 2011. An increase in demand for wind turbines triggers the link – government incentives distort the market
GCC 12 (Green Car Congress, report based on MIT Research "MIT study finds shift to green energy sources could mean crunch in supply of key rare earth elements" 9 March, 2012 www.greencarcongress.com/2012/03/ree-20120309.html)
A large-scale shift ... research on this topic. A supply bottleneck causes U.S.-China war
Anthony 12/30/12 (Lead editor at Ziff Davis, Inc. Owner at SA Holdings Past Columnist at Tecca Editor at Aol (Weblogs, Inc) Educationm University of Essex, http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/111029-rare-earth-crisis-innovate-or-be-crushed-by-china/2)
The doomsday event that ... My money’s on graphene. Extinction
Wittner 11 (11/30/11 Dr. Lawrence, Prof of History Emeritus at SUNY Albany, “Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?”)
But what would that ... over the next decade. |
| 17 | 02/16/2013 | Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 5 | Opponent: | Judge:
Anti-Americanism and Russia’s approach to cooperation make relations completely ineffective
Cohen 12 – Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies (Ariel, 03/15, “How the U.S. Should Respond to Russia's Unhelpful Role in the Middle East,” http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/how-the-us-should-respond-to-russias-unhelpful-role-in-the-middle-east)
The anti-American tilt of ... in the Middle East. The U.S. can’t broaden engagement beyond arms control
Fly 10 – executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (Jamie M., 06/25, “President Obama’s Failed ‘Reset’ with Russia,” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/232469/president-obamas-failed-reset-russia-jamie-m-fly)
This is a concept ... situation in Russia deteriorates. Russia won’t cooperate on the issues their impact evidence is talking about
Brookes 12 – Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs and Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for Policy Studies (Peter, 06/19, “US-Russia: From ‘Reset’ to Regret,” http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/06/us-russia-from-reset-to-regret)
There’s little doubt from ... hope it will be. Empirics go neg
Bendikova and Cohen 12 (Michaela, Research Assistant for Missile Defense and Foreign Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, Ariel, Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, 08/04, “Who Are the Real Cold War Monsters?” http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/04/who-are-the-real-cold-war-monsters/)
It has been over ... Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. Domestic politics in both countries prevent relations from solving anything
Rojansky 9/5 – deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment (Matthew, “U.S.-Russian Cooperation Beyond 2012,” http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2012/09/05/u.s.-russia-cooperation-beyond-2012/drem)
The relationship between the ... by no means guaranteed. Strong Russia relations solve nothing – they wreck U.S. alliances and cause Russian aggression
McNamara 12 – Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom (Sally, 01/05, “The Failure of the “Russia Reset”: Next Steps for the United States and Europe,” http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/01/the-failure-of-the-russia-reset-next-steps-for-the-united-states-and-europe)
President Barack Obama’s Russia ... of influence in Eurasia. Collapse of U.S. alliances triggers nuclear wars
Millot 94 (Marc Dean Millot, Defense Analyst at RAND, Washington Quarterly, Summer)
The outcome of this ... wars involving U.S. forces. Russian adventurism causes global nuclear war
Blank 2k – Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College (Stephen J., 09/22, World Affairs)
Russia's warnings about U.S. ... of settling the situation.(77) Outweighs on magnitude and probability
Blank 2k – Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College (Stephen J., June, “U.S. MILITARY ENGAGEMENT WITH TRANSCAUCASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA,” www.bits.de/NRANEU/docs/Blank2000.pdf)
However, Washington’s well-known ... unilateral advantage and reintegration. 75 We control the fastest extinction impact – relations kill U.S. BMDs – causes nuclear war in 2013
Bendikova 12 – Research Assistant for Missile Defense and Foreign Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy (Michaela, 06/01, “Limiting Defenses to Placate Russia Is Dangerous,” http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/01/limiting-defenses-to-placate-russia-is-dangerous/)
In his recent article ... is now too high. Turns nuclear deterrence
Andersen 11 – Senior Digital Communications Associate at The Heritage Foundation (Ericka, 10/26, “Morning Bell: The Serious Risks of the Russian Reset,” http://blog.heritage.org/2011/10/26/morning-bell-the-serious-risks-of-the-russian-reset/)
President Obama may believe ... otherwise will be great. U.S.-Russia relations cause Iran to launch nuclear attacks on Europe within 3 years
Gardner 12 – former writer for the Homeland Security NewsWire (Chris, 07/20, “Russian Demands Are Still Not a Reason to Abandon U.S. Missile Defense,” http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/20/russian-demands-are-still-not-a-reason-to-abandon-u-s-missile-defense/)
Continuing its longstanding opposition ... ICBM within three years. Global nuclear war
Glaser, Assistant Prof @ Chicago, 93 (Charles, International Security Summer)
However, although the lack ... unconcerned about Europe’s future. |
| 18 | 02/16/2013 | Tournament: Northwesterm | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge:
The 1AC's focus becomes an alibi for acquiescence of class struggles – they obscure the logic of capital and ensure repetition of oppression
Zavarzadeh 94 (Mas'Ud, The Stupidity That Consumption Is Just as Productive as Production": In the Shopping Mall of the Post-al Left," College Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3, The Politics of Teaching Literature 2 (Oct., 1994),pp. 92-114)
Post-al logic is marked ... Theory and its Other). The aff’s approach to knowledge which privileges subjectivity and uncertainty denies the objectivity in class relations and the oppression that is produced from capital accumulation
Zavarzadeh 94 (Mas'Ud, The Stupidity That Consumption Is Just as Productive as Production": In the Shopping Mall of the Post-al Left," College Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3, The Politics of Teaching Literature 2 (Oct., 1994), pp. 92-114)
The unsurpassable objectivity which ... shopping mall of France. The denial of the objective suffering that capitalism naturalizes violence and makes us indifferent toward limitless annihilation
Zavarzadeh 94 (Mas'Ud, The Stupidity That Consumption Is Just as Productive as Production": In the Shopping Mall of the Post-al Left," College Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3, The Politics of Teaching Literature 2 (Oct., 1994),pp. 92-114)
What is obscured in ... more tolerable, justifiable, and naturalized. Vote negative to endorse a political strategy that withdraws from capitalist relations Universal Rejection is key – it’s the only way to hollow out capitalist structures – the debate should be a question of competing methodologies – The primary question of the ballot should be affirming an ethical orientation that best organizes against capitalist relations
Herod 4 renowned philosopher, author, and social activist
(James, “Getting Free”, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm, accessed 8/6/09)
It is time to ... of their social world. |
| 19 | 02/16/2013 | Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge:
The affirmative chooses to engage in personalized politics in a competitive debate round by claiming to use their own personal form of labor to create social change. This is counterproductive for 3 reasons Alliance splitting- personalizing debate risks splitting alliances and fracturing solutions, causing backlash and resistance:
Zompetti ’04 Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State
University, “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”
The purpose of this ... anxiety, resistance and backlash. Structural solutions- personalized debating blocks structural solutions
Zompetti ’04 Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University, “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”
To be sure, many ... within the debate community. Debate rounds are bad forums- lack of time, moving advocacy target, and they deflect from community-wide discussions- turns the case
Zompetti ’04 Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University, “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”
The second major problem ... such as resource disparity. Our alternative is to reject the affirmative within the realm of a competitive debate round. |
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