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+====U.S. emissions low now==== |
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+**McMahon 6/23** ~~Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~#fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW |
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+A dramatic slump in coal production has pushed U.S. carbon emissions so |
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+," Cohan said, "if the Clean Power Plan is not implemented." |
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+====Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomings==== |
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+**Cohen 2012** |
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+~~Armond, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force, 2-13, "Decarbonization: The Nuclear Option," http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/02/is-america-poised-for-nuclear.php?print=trueandprintcomment=2161670~~ |
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+Three years ago, MIT's Richard Lester published a simple analysis of what would be |
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+AND |
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+power, despite its genuine challenges, cannot be left off the table. |
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+====Warming causes extinction ==== |
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+**Mazo '10** (Jeffrey Mazo – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122) |
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+The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2 |
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+AND |
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+adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes. |