Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Text:  The United States federal government should implement an industrial energy assessment program as per our DOE evidence on the implementation of Loan guarantees for the construction of nuclear power plants.  The United States federal government should implement the result of the assessment.

CP is not normal means but fixes the problem with funding mechanism that causes systemic failures – only the counterplan solves
Burgess and Upton 7/31
(Representative Michael C. Burgess and Representative Fred Upton, U.S. congressman, “Working to ensure there will be no more Solyndras” http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-a-environment/241309-working-to-ensure-there-will-be-no-more-solyndras) MattG

With millions out of work and rising prices on basic living expenses, American families
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House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton is the chairman of the committee.

IAC’s are necessary to save the manufacturing industry – improves efficiency and creates smart jobs opportunities
DOE 2012
(Us Department of Energy, appeared in weekly newsletter, “Learn about DOE's Industrial Assessment Center Program” http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/26555/Industrial-assessment-career-program) MattG

IACs offer an extremely valuable service to small- and mid-sized manufacturers—
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high demand that most leave the program with numerous job offers in hand.

That means the manufacturing industry gets on board with the counterplan – ensures bipart support despite election year politics
AIAS 2012
(American Iron and Steel Institute, August 4th, 2012, “US manufacturing sector played huge role in economic recovery – AISI, http://www.steelguru.com/international_news/US_manufacturing_sector_played_huge_role_in_economic_recovery_AISI/276904.html) MattG

This example also makes one thing clear: Policymakers should do everything they can to
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keep US manufacturers on solid ground. Source - American Iron and Steel Institute

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC – Iran
Obama will win- Romney isn’t viewed as a winner
Marlantes 9/13
(Liz, Decoder Wire, On one issue, most Americans agree: They think President Obama will win, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0913/On-one-issue-most-Americans-agree-They-think-President-Obama-will-win-video, Dil)
National polls may show that the presidential race remains close – though lately, President
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lens, it creates a dynamic that seems to make winning even harder.
Massive public opposition to nuclear power – viewed as too risky
Ramana, Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security Physicist, 11
(M.V. August 3, “Nuclear power and the public,” http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/nuclear-power-and-the-public, d/a 7-20-12, ads)
Japan is by no means alone. Around the world, nuclear energy has declined
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it unlikely that a large-scale "nuclear renaissance" will materialize. 

Israel will hold off strikes now
Foster, ’12 (Daniel, National Review, 3/8/12, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/292970/obama-casually-offers-israel-goodies-bomb-iran-iafteri-election-daniel-foster#, JD)

The president, who in a recent press conference admonished Republicans for their “casual
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November this year. The newspaper cited unnamed Western diplomatic and intelligence sources. 

Obama’s key to hold of Netanyahu
Hurst, ’12 (Stephen, AP, 4/18/12, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/18/Romneys-foreign-policy-may-mean-hardball-is-back, JD)

Even so, Romney will campaign, Williamson said, as the man who can
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me as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon." 

Iran strikes causes multiple scenarios for extinction.
Chossudovsky 6. (Michel Chossudovsky, The Next Phase of the Middle East War, Global Research, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=3147)
The Bush Administration has embarked upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity
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basin, eventually leading to the destabilization and conquest of the Russian Federation.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
T – Must Be More Than One
Interpretation: the affirmative must increase more than one method of a financial incentive and/or reduce multiple restrictions for energy production in the United States one or more of the following: coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, wind power.
Definitions:

The plural use of incentives and restrictions in the resolution mean you must increase more than one
Collins English Dictionary 2012 [plural. (n.d.). Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 10th Edition. Retrieved August 17, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plural, ITPirate]
¶ plural (ˈplʊərəl)¶ ¶ — adj¶ 1. containing, involving, or composed of more than one person, thing, item, etc: a plural society¶ 2. denoting a word indicating that more than one referent is being referred to or described relationship”. “Each CUSTOMER may be the originator of one or more ORDERs.”
C) Standards:
Limits – allowing any piece of technology or waiver to be removed explodes the topic.
Bidirectionality- A team can remove a small restriction, and then claim that the remaining restrictions increase effeciency, destroying any possibility of case offense.  
Ground – gives them the most specific link turns and advantage ground – makes being neg impossible.

Topicality is a voter for fairness and education; evaluate topicality in a framework of competing interpretations reasonability is arbitrary and leads to a race to the bottom.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC Material
Greenwashing causes the destruction of everything and makes the world suck more.
Kovel 2007
[Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE] 

The Enemy of Nature argues that, however capital may restructure¶ and reform itself
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help bring forth a way of being worthy of our¶ human nature.

Capital turns and outweighs all other impacts – life without capital is possible and it’s the only way to survive
Kovel and Lowy in 1
[Joel an American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist, Michael is an emeritus Research Director at the National Center for¶ Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes¶ en Sciences in Paris, “An Ecosocialist Manifesto,” http://www.iefd.org/manifestos/ecosocialist_manifesto.php,   ITPIRATE]¶ 

The idea for this ecosocialist manifesto was jointly launched by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy
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envision an "ecosocialist international?" Can the spectre be brought into being?

Our alternative is to reject the hyper-consumerism of the affirmative and endorse ecosocialism.
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE]
We call ecosocialism that society in which production is carried¶ out by freely associated
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labor that will not be pushed¶ around by massified and totalizing institutions.

 (Liz, Decoder Wire, On one issue, most Americans agree: They think President Obama will win, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0913/On-one-issue-most-Americans-agree-They-think-President-Obama-will-win-video, Dil)
National polls may show that the presidential race remains close – though lately, President
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lens, it creates a dynamic that seems to make winning even harder.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Case
Warming
1nc Proliferation
No risk of nuclear proliferation
Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University, 2007 [John, Radioactive Hype, National Interest, Sept/Oct]
Despite the predictions of generations of alarmists, nuclear proliferation has proceeded at a remarkably
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reality, but perhaps others on the Bush Administration's implicit hit list will.

alternative casualties
Union of Concerned Scientists ‘8
1nc nuke terror
No technical capacity to steal, transport or build the bomb
Chapman, 8 (Steven, columnist and editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune, 2/8/2008, Who’s Still Afraid of Osama?, p. http://reason.com/news/show/124874.html)
Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have had to live with the
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, it appears, the worst eventuality is one that will never happen.

Terrorism won’t go nuclear and they won’t be able to attack the US - several warrants
Mearsheimer 11, January, John J., Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is on the Advisory Council of The National Interest, “Imperial by Design,”http:nationalinterest.org/article/imperial-by-design-4576?page=3,
The fact is that states have strong incentives to distrust terrorist groups, in part
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by accident-causing deer, or by severe allergic reactions to peanuts.”  
Warming
Warming Natural
Warming is natural- even if it’s the result of the greenhouse effect that is caused by water vapor
Jaworowski 2004 [Professor Zbigniew M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. is the chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw. Winter “Solar Cycles, Not CO2, Determine Climate” 21st Century Science Tech http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202004/Winter2003-4/global_warming.pdf]
In fact, the recent climate developments  are not something unusual; they reflect a  
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may be about 0.05 to  0.25 percent.13. 

No proof humans cause global warming

Carter 2012
[Bob. (A paleoclimatologist at James Cook University, Australia, and a chief science advisor for the International Climate Science Coalition). “Deal with climate reality as it unfolds.” National Post aka The Financial Post. 5/24/2012. LN Jamie]

Despite an estimated spend of well over $100-billion since 1990 looking for a human global temperature signal, assessed against geological reality no compelling empirical evidence yet exists for a measurable, let alone worrisome, human impact on global temperature.
Climate change events are natural and destructive

Carter 2012
[Bob. (A paleoclimatologist at James Cook University, Australia, and a chief science advisor for the International Climate Science Coalition). “Deal with climate reality as it unfolds.” National Post aka The Financial Post. 5/24/2012. LN Jamie]

Nonetheless, a key issue on which all scientists agree is that natural climate-
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that for natural risks that vary from place to place around the globe.

1NC
Best climate data proves warming is false and we’re on the brink of another ice age
Peter Ferrara – Forbes – 5/31/12, Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling, http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/31/sorry-global-warming-alarmists-the-earth-is-cooling/2/
Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think
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reduced agricultural output, and widespread human suffering, disease and premature death.

GHG emissions key to preventing another Ice Age - replaces natural loss of CO2
MATT RIDLEY - BA and DPhil degrees from Oxford University – 1/14/12, Are We Holding a New Ice Age at Bay?, Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204257504577150812451167538.html
The entire 10,000-year history of civilization has happened in an unusually
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000 and 120,000 years ago, before a sharper fall began.
Impact is extinction—history proves.
Marsh 12 (Gerald Marsh is a 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, 2012, The Coming of a New Ice Age, Winningreen, http://www.winningreen.com/site/epage/59549_621.htm)
Contrary to the conventional wisdom of the day, the real danger facing humanity is
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well prove to be only a will-o-the-wisp.

1NC
CO2 is key to agricultural yields- key to preserve Biodiversity- the alternative is using more land for crops- no other alternative is sufficient to solve
Idso and Idso 2011 Craig D. (founder and chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change) Sherwood B. (president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change) February “Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future Pursuing the Prudent Path” http://www.co2science.org/education/reports/prudentpath/prudentpath.pdf.
How much land can ten billion people spare for nature? This provocative question was
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bringing down the curtain" on the world of nature in the process.
Biodiversity loss causes extinction
Young 2010 (Dr Ruth Young, PhD specialising in coastal marine ecology. 2-9-2010, “Biodiversity: what it is and why it’s important”, http://www.talkingnature.com/2010/02/Biodiversity/Biodiversity-what-and-why/)
Different species within ecosystems fill particular roles, they all have a function, they
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on this planet possible and that our protection of Biodiversity maintains this service.
Resource conflicts are the most likely to escalate
Heinberg 2004 Richard Heinberg. (Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, Author of Eight Books and widely regarded as one the world's foremost Peak Oil Educators). "Book Excerpt: Powerdown: options and actions for a post-carbon world." 2004. Online.
Last One Standing – The path of competition for remaining resources. If the leadership
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warfare could become even more destructive that the case during the past century.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: Octos | Opponent:  | Judge:
First, the aff is a leftist project that suffers from oversocialization. Their genealogy is produced from the guilt of their own participation in the University of Wyoming system. 

Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)
24. Psychologists use the term "socialization" to designate the process by which
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how to make love, how to raise our kids and so forth.
And, guilt expresses a hatred of this world that allows for a secret instinct of annihilation
Nietzsche,  1872 (Friedrich, philosopher, “The Birth of Tragedy” Online, MB)
Already in the preface addressed to Richard Wagner, art, and not morality,
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in the name of a Greek god: I called it Dionysian. —
And, speaking truth to power feeds the system, which turns the aff

Gledhill in 2004
(John, Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, “Beyond Speaking Truth to Power: Anthropological entanglements with multicultural and indigenous rights politics”,http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/research/workingpapers/documents/Beyond_Speaking_Truth_to_Power.pdf, rcheek)

Professional anthropologists conspicuously disagree about the kind of practical engagement we should have with multi
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has to date been sidestepped in efforts to contain ethical and political controversy.

And, their rebellion will be co-opted by the system
Kaczynski in 2010
(Ted, PhD from University of Michigan, former assistant professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, “Technological Slavery”, kindle)

So, in a nutshell, the System's neatest trick is this:  (a
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institutions and is directed instead at the radicals who spearhead the social changes.
And, their university intellectualism sustains the system by steering rebellious impulses into endless interrogation

Kaczynski in 2010
(Ted, PhD from University of Michigan, former assistant professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, “Technological Slavery”, kindle)

Through this type of process, rebel movements that are dangerous to the System are
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just as hairstyles, clothing styles, and other fads spread through imitation.

And, the industrial-technological system will guarantee the enslavement and eventual extinction of all living organisms.
Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)

171. But suppose now that industrial society does survive the next several decade and
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would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.
The alternative is to destroy the industrial-technological system.
Only a revolutionary strategy against modern technology can break down the system. Any perm would compromise the revolution by enabling technological solutions to other problems.

Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)

180. The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the
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not going to give good results, then those recommendations should be discarded. 

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Policy analysis should precede discourse – most effective way to challenge power
Jill Taft-Kaufman, Speech prof @ CMU, 1995, Southern Comm. Journal, Spring, v. 60, Iss. 3, “Other Ways”, p pq
The postmodern passwords of "polyvocality," "Otherness," and "difference," unsupported
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political agendas, institutions, agencies, and the budgets that fuel them. 

Analyzing discourse doesn’t and shouldn’t affect policy – too many other factors influence policymaking that make their framework useless
Gearoid O Tuathail, Department of Geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “The patterned mess of history and the writing of critical geopolitics: a reply to Dalby,” Political Geography Vol 15 No 6/7, 1996, CIAO
While theoretical debates at academic conferences are important to academics, the discourse and concerns
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needs to always be open to the patterned mess that is  human history.

Discourse doesn’t shape reality --- must evaluate reality outside text and words to understand the world
Roberts and Joseph 5 [John Michael, lecturer in sociology and communication @ Brunel University, and Jonathon, professor of politics and international relations @ University of Kent, “Derrida, Foucault, and Zizek: Being Realistic About Social Theory”, Critical Realism Today, 56, Autumn, pg 119-120]
To conclude, we would say that epistemic caution is necessary for the ‘discursive’
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and the broader social and cultural world of which we are a part. 

Reality shapes language, not the other way around
Matthew Roskoski and Joe Peabody, “A Linguistic and Philosophical Critique of Language ‘Arguments,’” 1991, http://debate.uvm.edu/Library/DebateTheoryLibrary/RoskoskiandPeabody-LangCritiques, accessed 10/17/02
The first is that the hypothesis is phrased as a philosophical first principle and hence
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other, more abstract, entities and their names. (Rosch 264).

Discourse Kills Resistance
Linguistic focus collapses political action and prevents resistance movements
McNally 95 [David, Professor of Political Science at York University (CA), July-August, Monthly Review, “Language, history, and class struggle” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n3_v47/ai_17228734]
Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an
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represent an obstacle to the rebuilding of mass movements of protest and resistance. 

Discourse cannot be divorced from the material world – their linguistic focus makes political resistance impossible
McNally 95 [David, Professor of Political Science at York University (CA), July-August, Monthly Review, “Language, history, and class struggle” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n3_v47/ai_17228734]
But social interaction is not simply discursive. Speech is not a realm with an
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his theory allows no basis for oppositional (or maybe any) politics.
Discourse Kills Resistance
Discourse cannot be divorced from the material world – their linguistic focus makes political resistance impossible
Voting aff tethers us to our speech act, denying the ability to re-appropriate speech for positive ends. Their kritik replicates the juridical model
David Campbell, (Yes The Same Campbell,) Professor of International Politics at the University of Newcastle in England. http://calliope.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v002/2.1r_campbell.html, 98
In contrast, Butler wants to cautiously tread a fine philosophical line to make an
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of injurious language can be 'misappropriated' to counter its injurious operation (41). 

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Oil markets and prices are stable now due to OPEC
Amanze 7-3-2012 (Chika, “OPEC: Stable Oil Price, Good for Producers, Consumers”, http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/opec-stable-oil-price-good-for-producers-consumers/119198/) MattG

Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdalla Salem
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fuel type in satisfying the world’s growing energy needs for the foreseeable future.

Saudi Arabia ramping up production of oil
Clayton, 9/21/12
(Blake, CNN Specialist, “U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve needs fixing – fast”, CNN News, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/21/u-s-strategic-petroleum-reserve-needs-fixing-fast/, BMW)

 Saudi Arabia holds the lion’s share of OPEC spare capacity – in other words
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oil industry, a veil of secrecy that provides fodder for market speculation. 

Production of other forms of energy lowers oil prices
US Fed News 2008 (
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and provide tax incentives to encourage the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Plan causes Saudi Arabia to flood the oil market and collapse prices
Morse and Richards 2002 (Edward L. Morse is Executive Adviser at Hess Energy Trading Company and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy in 1979-81. James Richard is a portfolio manager at Firebird Management, an investment fund active in eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, Foreign Affairs, March/April) MattG

A simple fact explains this conclusion: 63 percent of the world's proven oil reserves
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lost in the preceding four years, mainly to non-OPEC countries.

That crushes the Russian economy
Kramer 12 – New York Times writer and editor (ANDREW E. “Higher Oil Prices to Pay for Campaign Promises” New York Times March 16, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/business/global/vladimir-putins-big-promises-need-fueling-by-high-oil-prices.html?_r=2?pagewanted=print Putin Needs ) MattG

MOSCOW — In American presidential politics, high oil prices are a problem. For
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plan, though, was never part of Mr. Putin’s stump speech.

Guarantees loose nukes and irrational war
Filger 2009 (Sheldon, author and blogger for the Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction” http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356) MattG

In Russia historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree that
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the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Warming

Sustainable ag being solved now—400,000 tons eliminated annually
Tyce Herman June 21, 2011 is a ClimateProgress contributing writer at Center for American Progress Action Fund who attended Stetson University and University of Oxford Re-Imagining Agriculture: How to Raise Yields While Reducing CO2 Emissions http://news.yourolivebranch.org/2011/06/21/re-imagining-agriculture-how-to-raise-yields-while-reducing-co2-emissions/
Companies are taking an equally proactive role in the push for more sustainable agriculture.
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this technology, 400,000 tons of CO2 would be eliminated annually.

High status quo CO2 emissions are key to agriculture and prevent extinction
IDSOS 12-22-2010 (Sherwood PhD and fmr research physicist for the Dept of Ag, Keith PhD Botany, Craig PhD Geography, “Food Security: The Real Planetary Problem,” CO2 Science, Volume 13, Number 51, http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N51/EDIT.php)
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Proteome Research, Sarkar et al
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-giving molecule that we expel to the air every time we exhale.

They cause faster warming – because large emission reductions remove sulfate aerosols which cool the Earth
Lovelock ‘9, Consultant of NASA, former president of the Marine Biological Association, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford (James, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy it While You Can, 55-56
In 2004, two IPCC contributors, Peter Cox and Meinrat Andreae, raised the
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"We live in a fool's climate and are damned whatever we do."

Sulfur offsets carbon dioxide solves warming
Bryan Walsh staffwriter July 5, 2011 Has “China Sky” Helped slow global Warming? http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/07/05/has-china-sky-helped-slow-global-warming/
As it turns out, however, China sky may actually have another, surprising
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controls kicked in and companies installed scrubbers in coal-fired power plants.

No impact- tons of steps taken now to reduce any potential threat of blackouts
FRISCHKORON, ‘4 [8.15, Jeffrey, “Agencies take steps to prevent another massive power outage” The Times Herald, http://www.timesherald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1672anddept_id=33380andnewsid=12698701]
FirstEnergy Corp. and agencies responsible for monitoring electric utilities are taking steps to help
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, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, a scientific activist group.

The ice age is coming now and will end the human species, displace nations and collapse the economy—we can’t adapt
Aym 10. (12/22/10. Terrence, writer for The Los Angeles Sentinel, Individual Investor Magazine and more. Helium 3. “German scientist predicts new Ice age now approaching” http://www.helium.com/items/2045473-scientist-predicts-new-ice-age-now-approaching)
Panicking people fleeing dying cities…Pandemics and epidemics breaking out…Europe facing regional
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towards an Ice Age footing, the world's weather patterns will reverse dramatically. 

CO2 emissions key to prevent Ice Age
Reporting Climate Science 10. (10/26/10. “A computer model has demonstrated that without carbon dioxide the Earth’s temperature would fall by 35c in 50 years” http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/carbon-dioxide-prevents-earth-from-becoming-an-ice-world.html)
A computer model shows that without carbon dioxide  the terrestrial greenhouse would collapse and plunge
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atmospheric carbon dioxide acts as a thermostat in regulating the temperature of Earth.”

Grid
Can’t solve the grid would require vehicles to be plugged in constantly

No impact- tons of steps taken now to reduce any potential threat of blackouts
FRISCHKORON, ‘4 [8.15, Jeffrey, “Agencies take steps to prevent another massive power outage” The Times Herald, http://www.timesherald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1672anddept_id=33380andnewsid=12698701]
FirstEnergy Corp. and agencies responsible for monitoring electric utilities are taking steps to help
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, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, a scientific activist group.

There is no more grid vulnerability--utilities have corrected problems and stronger federal oversight proves
ROBERTS, ‘4
[10.1,  Paul.  CSO Magazine.  “Power Play”]
A joint U.S.-Canadian task force report issued in April 2004 blamed
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to directly oversee the reliability of the power grid, Lee says. 

There is no more grid vulnerability--utilities have corrected problems and stronger federal oversight proves
ROBERTS, ‘4
[10.1,  Paul.  CSO Magazine.  “Power Play”]
A joint U.S.-Canadian task force report issued in April 2004 blamed
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to directly oversee the reliability of the power grid, Lee says.