Tournament: ISU | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNLV JS | Judge: Odekirk
Renewables currently barred from forming MLPs—this stifles renewable energy projects
Blodgett and Gawell 12
(Leslie and Karl, Geothermal Energy Weekly, “New MLP Parity Act Could Give a Boost to Geothermal/Renewable Energy Investors,” 2012, http://geo-energy.org/Newsletter/2012/Geothermal%20Energy%20Weekly%20July%2019%202012.pdf//wyo-mm)
An MLP is a business structure that is taxed as a partnership, but whose
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R.I.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).

Plan: The United States federal government should expand eligibility for Master Limited Partnerships for the production of wind power.

Warming ADV:
American clean energy markets are on the verge of collapse- a perfect storm of expiring financial incentives and declining export opportunities will gut renewables absent fast policy action

Jenkins et al 12
Jesse, Director of Energy and Climate Policy, Breakthrough Institute, Mark Muro, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Cofounders, Breakthrough Institute, Letha Tawney, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute, Alex Trembath, Policy Associate, Breakthrough Institute, Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence, April 2012, p. onlinewyo-tjc
In the absence of significant and timely energy policy reform, the recent boom in
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are likely to experience more bankruptcies, consolidations, and market contraction ahead.

Warming is real; human caused and rapid: there are four key signals carbon dioxide increase, melting of polar ice caps, melting glaciers, and rapid sea level rise
Prothero 12
(Donald R. Prothero is a Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. “How we know global warming is real and human caused” Winter 2012. Academic OneFilewyoccd)
Converging Lines of Evidence How do we know that global warming is real and primarily
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Florida, and most of the world's river deltas) would be drowned.

Even if warming is natural: anthropogenic factors are uniquely the cause of accelerated, run away warming of the squo

Hegerl et al 11
(Gabriele Hegerl is a professor of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. Francis Zwiers works at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria. Claudia Tebaldi works at Climate Central Inc. “Patterns of change: whose fingerprint is seen in global warming?” IOP Science. Pg 2-3. 2011. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044025/pdf/1748-9326_6_4_044025.pdf//wyoccd)

Rapid runaway warming creates several scenarios for extinction:
Scenario One: Environmental Collapse
Studies show warming is human caused and will cause extinction
Ahmed 2010
(Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, “Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises,” Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)
Perhaps the most notorious indicator is anthropogenic global warming. The landmark 2007 Fourth Assessment
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– a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.xi

Try or die- the environment is at the tipping point- Collapse will be fast and catastrophic
AFP, 12
(Agence France-Presse, citing UN study, “Environmental collapse now a serious threat: scientists,” Raw Story, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/)
The paper by 22 top researchers said a “tipping point” by which the
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surface is being used for farming or habitation, according to the study.

CO2 good arguments ignore atmospheric science because it’s about a balance of CO2, not just high CO2 levels in general being good

Prothero 12
(Donald R. Prothero is a Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. “How we know global warming is real and human caused” Winter 2012. Academic OneFilewyoccd)

Scenario Two: Middle East

Global warming leads to famine, droughts and water wars in the Middle East, and helped fuel the arab spring

Romm 12
Joe Romm is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.“Must-Read: Tom Friedman On Climate Change And ‘The Other Arab Spring’” http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/08/460221/tom-friedman-on-climate-change-and-the-other-arab-spring/, accessed 9-2-12,WYO/JF
The Arab awaking was driven
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Unprecedented ‘youth bulge’. 

Global warming causes accelerated Middle East conflict and insecurity

Werz 12
Michael is a Senior Fellow at American Progress where his work focuses on climate migration and security as well as transatlantic foreign policy including Turkey. Kari Manlove is a Research Associate for the Energy Opportunity team, where she does research and writes on global energy poverty alleviation and a range of issues related to the international climate negotiations,
“Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios in the 21st Century” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2012/01/03/10857/climate-change-migration-and-conflict/, accessed 9-4-12,WYO/JF
The Arab Spring can be
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And Conflict.

Instability leaves nuclear facilities vulnerable to attack or being stolen
Heenan 11
(Bill Heenan, Middle East Affairs Examiner. “Will political instability pose risks to nuclear facilities in Middle East?” March 19, 2011. http://www.examiner.com/article/will-political-instability-pose-risks-to-nuclear-facilities-middle-east//wyoccd)
While Palestinians mull over
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Protected and remain secure.

Nuclear terrorism leads to extinction

Morgan 09
(Dennis, Professor @ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race,” Futures, November, Science Directwyoccd)

We solve for warming:
Wind power generation directly offsets emissions
Cullen 11
Professor of economics at Harvard, is an economist who investigates the economics of energy and its implications for our environment. “Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind-Generated Electricity” http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jcullen/Documents/measuringwind.pdf, accessed 8-22-12,WYO/JF
Utilizing information on production decisions in 15-minute intervals on the Texas electricity grid
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I present the results and determine the value of offset emissions before concluding.

MLPs solve renewables and green house gas emissions and stable energy generation
Congressional Documents and Publications, 6-7-12
US senate documents news release, “Senators Coons, Moran introduce bill to spark investment in renewable energy projects: Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-DE) News Release.” Accessed online via proquest /Wyo-MB
Josh Freed, vice president for clean energy, Third Way: "There are
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greenhouse gases, and secure the electrical grid with stable, baseload power."

Transition from fossil fuels is key to solve warming, even if it increases construction emissions in the short term, wind and solar solve in the long term
Myhrvold and Caldeira, 2012
NP, member of intellectual ventures, and K, Dept. of Global Ecology Carnegie institute, “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity.” 2012 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 014019, Online, http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wowk/Carnegiestudy.pdf /Wyo-MB
A transition from the global system of coal-based electricity generation to¶ low
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in the second half of this century; however, natural gas cannot.

U.S. leadership is key to solve for global ghg’s and warming, lead to massive amount of modeling, and decrease use of oil

NREL 08
is a national laboratory of the U. S. Department of Energy, “Strengthening U.S. Leadership of International Clean Energy Cooperation “,http://www.nrel.gov/international/pdfs/44261.pdf, accessed 9-2-12,WYO/JF
Greenhouse Gas Impacts The primary environmental benefit of the U.S.-led global
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the world by 2020, which is consistent with the Millennium Development Goals.

ECON ADV:
Economic collapse coming now – manufacturing and investment are weak, and failure to resolve creates a sustained recession
Morici 12
economist and professor at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, “The coming economic collapse and what can – and cannot – be done”, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-26/news/fl-pmcol-economics-fri0727-20120726_1_wall-street-banks-export-driven-growth-tax-cuts, 8-16-12,WYO/JF
The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of another recession.
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and set off hyperinflation, but it can't lower interest rates much further.

Manufacturing is down now, and kills the U.S. economy

Spicer 9-4
Johnathan Spicer, writer for Reuters. “Manufacturing another headache for U.S. economy” http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/04/us-usa-economy-manufacturing-idUSBRE8830MA20120904, accessed 9-4-12,WYO/JF
Manufacturing in the United States shrank
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Of the weakest since October 2009. 

MLPs only way to solve for renewables and the economy
DiMugno 12
(Laura, editor, writer and journalist work has spanned areas including energy, the environment, travel, and technology, North American Wind Power, “UPDATED: New Legislation Could Unlock Billions Of Dollars In Wind Energy Investment,” June 7, 2012, http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.9961//wyo-mm)
Opening up an investment vehicle long used in fossil-fuel markets to renewable energy
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and solar projects are generally long-term contracts that offer cashflow stability.

Thats key to economic growth
Economic Report to the President, 2011
White house staff, “Chapter 1: From Crisis recovery and growth.” Online, http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011_erp_chapter1.pdf /Wyo-MB
Energy plays a critical role in the economy, and Chapter 6 outlines key ¶
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in an economy ¶ based on a safer and more secure energy supply.

Wind drives manufacturing competitiveness on the global market and employs thousands.
Burger 12
(Andrew, graduate of the University of Colorado, reports on news and events at the nexus of environment, technology, political economy and society, Triple Pundit, “Growth in U.S. Wind Power Requires Federal Support,” August 15, 2012, http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/08/growth-wind-power-requires-federal-support///wyo-mm) 

Wind is key to sustainable job creation: employs wide range of labor
Wei et al 09
(Max, Shana Patadia, and Daniel M. Kammen, Wei and Kammen work at the Energy and Resources Group, Patadia is at Haas School of Business, University of California, Energy Policy, “Putting renewables and energy efficiency to work: How many jobs can the clean energy industry generate in the US?” November 14, 2009, Science Directwyo-mm) 

Manufacturing is key to the US economy
Ettlinger and Gordon, 2011
Michael Ettlinger is the Vice President for Economic Policy and Kate Gordon is the Vice President for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress, “The Importance and Promise of American Manufacturing.” 4-7-2011, Online, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/04/07/9427/the-importance-and-promise-of-american-manufacturing/ /Wyo-MB
Manufacturing is critically important to the American economy. For generations, the strength of
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, our national security, and the well-being of all Americans.

Manufacturing Jobs are key to US technological leadership and economic competitiveness
Ettlinger and Gordon, 2011
Michael Ettlinger is the Vice President for Economic Policy and Kate Gordon is the Vice President for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress, “The Importance and Promise of American Manufacturing.” 4-7-2011, Online, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/04/07/9427/the-importance-and-promise-of-american-manufacturing/ /Wyo-MB
First, jobs in the manufacturing sector are good middle-class jobs for millions
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industry, academia, and government is vital to our nation’s economic competitiveness.

US key to world economy, exports, skilled workers and demand growth
Economic Report to the President, 2011
White house staff, “Chapter 4: The World Economy.” Online, http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011_erp_chapter1.pdf /Wyo-MB
First, jobs in the manufacturing sector are good middle-class jobs for millions
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industry, academia, and government is vital to our nation’s economic competitiveness.

Your economic collapse defense doesn’t apply, No scenarios have been this bad

Root 8-23
is a capitalist evangelist and serial entrepreneur. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold and Tax Cuts. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/23/why-are-on-brink-greatest-depression-all-time/#ixzz25teW2H00, accessed 9-7-12,WYO/JF

Growth solves global wars—multiple reasons
Royal, 10
Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense 2010, 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, 2010. p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

MLPs solve job creation, and investment, which bolsters the economy
Congressional Documents and Publications 6-7-12
US senate documents news release, “Senators Coons, Moran introduce bill to spark investment in renewable energy projects: Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-DE) News Release.” Accessed online via proquest /Wyo-MB
Doug Sims, Natural Resources Defense Council: "NRDC strongly endorses the MLP Parity
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would be a significant step toward continued development of clean, renewable energy."

Plan solves—expanding MLP’s to renewable energy is key to spur investment and development of wind technology
Mormann and Reicher, 6-2-12
Felix and Dan, NYT editorial staff, “How to Make Renewable Energy Competitive.” The New York Times. (June 2, 2012): News: pNA(L), Accessed online via academic onefile /Wyo-MB
Two financial mechanisms that have driven investment in traditional energy projects -- real estate investment
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bring many more renewable energy projects online, actually raising overall tax revenue.

And the federal government is key, changing MLP structure creates a stable regulatory environment
Freed and Stevens 11
(Josh and Mae, Freed is the Vice President of the Third Way Clean Energy Program and served for more than a decade as a political strategist for national, federal and local campaigns and was a senior staffer on Capitol Hill, Stevens is a Policy Advisor for the Third Way Clean Energy Program, Third Way, “A Small Tax Change, Big Clean Energy Results,” December 2011, http://content.thirdway.org/publications/475/Third_Way_Idea_Brief_-_A_Small_Tax_Change_Big_Clean_Energy_Results.pdf//wyo-mm)
Moreover, the economic downturn that began in 2008 has made it difficult for companies
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. This is, understandably, difficult for innovative energy companies to provide.