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+====Warming coming now—4C will be catastrophic—action is key==== |
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+Carrington ‘13 |
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+Damian Carrington, 12-31-2013, "Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate |
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+Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those |
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+AND |
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+economies of many countries if we don't urgently start to curb our emissions." |
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+====Prohibiting nuclear power causes massive warming—multiple links==== |
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+====Nuclear is best suited to replace renewables—solve emissions==== |
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+Waldman 15 |
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+ - Susanne, PhD in Risk Communication at Carleton University ("Why we Need Nuclear Power to Save the Environment" http://energyforhumanity.org/climate-energy/need-nuclear-power-save-environment/) |
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+The idea we might need nuclear power to save the environment may have seen farfetched |
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+AND |
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+they provide is typically quite cheap and not sensitive to fuel price volatility. |
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+====Empirics—nuclear results in less CO2 pollution==== |
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+Biello ‘13 |
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+David, writes for the scientific American, Internally Cites James Hansen, Professor at Columbia University ("How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/) |
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+In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors |
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+AND |
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+, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where Hansen works. |
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+====Banning nuclear power causes coal to fill in—Germany proves==== |
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+NEI ‘14 |
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+~~Nuclear Energy Institute, "Cuts in Nuclear Energy Mean Higher Electricity Costs, More Carbon Emissions," February 5, 2014, http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/Cuts-in-Nuclear-Energy-Mean-Higher-Electricity-Cos~~//KOHS-AG |
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+After the Fukushima Daiichi accident, the German government ordered eight of the country’s nuclear |
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+AND |
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+ruled that at least one of the enforced nuclear plant closures was illegal. |
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+====CO2 causes warming—computer models prove==== |
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+ORLC ‘12 |
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+ORLC ’12: Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, April 4, 2012 (http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2012/04/04/carbon-dioxide-caused-global-warming-at-ice-ages-end-pioneering-simulation-shows/) |
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+Climate science has an equivalent to the "what came first—the chicken or |
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+AND |
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+. The NOAA NGDC and PANGAEA databases were also essential to this work. |
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+====Warming is anthropogenic and causes extinction.==== |
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+=====Jamail 15 ===== |
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+(Dahr "Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It" July 6 2015 Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31661-mass-extinction-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it) |
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+Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, natural resources and ecology at |
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+AND |
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+in the course of just the next few decades, or even sooner. |