Tournament: Akins | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood CH | Judge:
Warming is real and anthropogenic
IPCC 2011 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Can the Warming of the 20th Century be Explained by Natural Variability?,” https://www.ipcc.unibe.ch/publications/wg1-ar4/faq/wg1_faq-9.2.html)
It is very unlikely that ... observed over the last 50
Lemonick, 2012 (Michael D., taught science and environmental journalism at Princeton, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins, 8-4-12, Climate Central, “Study Shows Planet Keeping Pace With CO2 Emissions,” http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-study-shows-planet-keeping-pace-with-co2-emissions)
Climate change is a serious ... fossil fuel emissions before that.”
Nuccitelli 2012 (Dana, Environmental scientists, Bachelor's Degree in astrophysics, Master's Degree in physics,” Realistically, What might the future look like, 2010, http://www.skepticalscience.com/realistically-what-might-future-climate-look-like.html, HM)
We're not yet committed to ... have discussed here (Figure 4).
Deibel 2007 (Terry, "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic of American Statecraft," Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today, 2007)
Finally, there is one major ... of life on this planet.
Warming increases transmission and intensity of disease due to ecological change
Adair 12 (KIRSTEN ADAIR, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER for Daily Yale News, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/apr/11/global-warming-may-intensify-disease/)
There may be more to ... on dengue transmission in Colombia.
Discover, 2000 (“Twenty Ways the World Could End” by Corey Powell in Discover Magazine, October 2000, http://discovermagazine.com/2000/oct/featworld)
If Earth doesn't do us ... migrated into the New World.
Doney, 2009 (Sctott C. Doney 1/2009, Marine Chemistry and Geochemist, http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/QwPqRGcRzQM5ffhPjAdT/full/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163834)
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ... reach far beyond limiting calcification
Craig, 2003 (Robin Kundis Craig, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155)
Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments ... of business as a result.
Downey 2010 (Liam, Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation,” US National Libraty of Medicine: National Institutes of Health, December 2010, Organ Environ. 23(4): 417–445)
To begin filling these gaps ... environmental degradation would not occur.
Specifically, resource extraction is directly linked to domestic and sexual abuse against women
Woo 2014 (Andrea, Reporter, “Study shows link between B.C. extraction industries, domestic abuse,” The Globe and Mail, July 24 2014, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/mining-forestry-tied-to-domestic-violence/article19735561/)
An increase in domestic and ... having “no fixed workplace address”
Transitioning to renewables and away from fossil fuels is the only way to resolve structural problems with the status quo
Kretzmann 2014 (Stephen, worked on environmental and social issues in the fossil fuel industry for 25 years, 8 years in Greenpeace, environmental adviser to the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People in Nigeria, “The Price of Oil: Global Warming,” Oil Change International, 2014, http://priceofoil.org/thepriceofoil/global-warming/)
Global warming poses a major ... dioxide when it is consumed!
Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should provide land grants for Carpet Wave Energy Converters.
Murray and Carr 2011 (Danielle and Christopher, Murray: Renewable Energy Program Manager, Carr: PhD in Law, specializes in clean technology “Riding the Wave: Confronting Jurisdictional and Regulatory Barriers to Ocean Energy Development,” Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal, October 10 2011, http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072andcontext=gguelj)
As discussed above, particularly from ... supply, and improved energy security.
Wave energy can provide 5 times our global energy demand
Aquamarine Power 2011 (Aquamarine Power, Wave Energy Company, leader in wave prediction, “Why Wave Power,” Aquamarine Power, 2011, http://www.aquamarinepower.com/technology/why-wave-power/)
Ocean waves represent our planet's ... gives us greater energy security.
Perkins 2012 (Ceri, Science writer, “’Seabed carpet’ could harness wave energy,” Physics World, June 14 2012, http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/jun/14/seabed-carpet-could-harness-wave-energy)
Alam believes that the CWEC ... wave approaching from any direction.
Wave carpets have multiple other advantages – including desalinization and the creation of safe zones
Alam et al. 2013 (Mohammad-Reza, Marcus Lehmann, Ryan Elandt, Henry Pham, Reza Ghorbani, Mostafa Shakeri, Professor at Berkeley, “An arti?cial seabed carpet for multidirectional and broadband wave energy extraction: Theory and Experiment,” Berkeley University, September 5 2013, PDF)
It has been reported worldwide ... to balance the electrical grid.
Gramlich et al, 2009(Rob, senior vice president for public policy at the American Wind Energy Association, Michael Goggin and Katherine Gensler, February, American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, “Green Power Superhighways: Building a Path to America’s Clean Energy Future,” http://www.awea.org/documents/issues/upload/GreenPowerSuperhighways.pdf)
Without a more robust transmission ... needed to tap these resources.
China and other counties would model US action on climate change
Gardner, 2007 (Timothy, correspondent on energy and the environment, Oct. 2, Scribd, “Experts Say China Would Follow U.S. Lead On Climate,” http://www.scribd.com/doc/30958756/Warming-General)
China would soon follow the ... cuts in water for agriculture.
Downey 2010 (Liam, Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation,” US National Libraty of Medicine: National Institutes of Health, December 2010, Organ Environ. 23(4): 417–445)
Freeport-McMoRan and the Indonesian government ... mine (Perlez and Bonner, 2005)
Mini-max reasoning based on conjoining link and internal link chains with large terminal impacts are useless for policymaking
Berube 2000 (David M, University of South Carolina Debate Director and Speech Communication Associate Professor, “Debunking Mini-Max Reasoning: The Limits of Extended Causal Chains in Contest Debating,” Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 21, 2000)
What was a knotty piece ... the question of equivocation.
Rescher 1983 (Nicholas, University of Pittsburgh Philosophy Professor, “Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management,” 1983, http://books.google.com/books/about/Risk.html?id=5fVOAAAAMAAJ)
On this issue there is ... that presents a realistic prospect.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 2004 (Nancy, University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology Professor, and Philippe, University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Professor, “Violence in War and Peace:An Anthology,” p. 19-22)
This large and at first ... and reversed feelings of victimization).
Nuclear war won’t happen – interdependence and cooperation check
Ikenbarry, and Deudney, 2009 (Daniel and G. John, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, Jan/Feb, “The Myth of the Autocratic Revival,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, Issue 1, p. 8)
It is in combination with these ... of international integration and cooperation.