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-====Nuclear power solves greenhouse emissions now and in the future – projections show it prevents almost half of the CO2 necessary to trigger runaway warming==== |
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-Kharecha and Hansen 13, Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute, “Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power,” American Chemical Society, Environmental Science and Technology, 2013, ghs//BZ |
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-We calculate that world nuclear power generation prevented an average of 64 gigatonnes of CO2 |
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-efficiency improvements and renewables, in the near-term global energy supply. |
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-====Only nuclear power solves – alternative energy growth is unaffected by phase-out but rather by state requirements and is statistically insufficient to replacing nuclear energy==== |
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-Brintone and Freede 15, Samuel Brinton Master’s degree program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nuclear engineering and the technology and policy program and Josh Freed Vice President at GMMB, a social marketing and advocacy firm, where he advised the senior leadership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; regularly advises senior federal and state policymakers, and his work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, National Journal, POLITICO, The Los Angeles Times and Wired., "When Nuclear Ends: How Nuclear Retirements Might Undermine Clean Power Plan Progress," Third Way, 8-19-2015, http://www.thirdway.org/report/when-nuclear-ends-how-nuclear-retirements-might-undermine-clean-power-plan-progress, ghs//BZ |
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-Unfortunately, our models found that renewable electricity sources grow primarily to satisfy state RPS |
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-and natural gas plants than our existing fleet of carbon-free nuclear. |
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-====Prohibiting nuclear power necessitates coal replacement – Japan proves – greenhouse gas emissions are magnified twenty times causing cancer, mass death, and extinction==== |
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-Baum ’15 (Seth, Oct 20th, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, a nonprofit think tank that Baum co-founded in 2011. Baum’s research focuses on risk, ethics, and policy questions about major threats to human civilization, including nuclear war, global warming, and emerging technologies., “Japan should restart more nuclear power plants”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://thebulletin.org/japan-should-restart-more-nuclear-power-plants8817~-~-ghs//sk) |
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-In August, a Japanese utility company restarted the Sendai nuclear power plant, sparking |
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-would be the best current energy option for Japan and for the world. |
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-====Warming causes racism, sexism, and extinction.==== |
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-David Naguib Pellow 12, Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota, “Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice,” February 2012, http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf |
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-It is now known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding |
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-that we must reduce our emissions and consumption here at home in the global |