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-====Only nuclear solves. Renewables will never replace increasing fuel demands. Bryce 13==== |
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-Bryce, Robert. (Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.) "Wind Turbines Are Climate-Change Scarecrows." National Review. 26 Nov 2013. Web. 4 Oct 2016. http://www.nationalreview.com/nro-energy/364885/wind-turbines-are-climate-change-scarecrows-robert-bryce |
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-That is, if the world's policymakers and environmentalists are serious about addressing climate change |
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-a society are doing something to avert the possibility of catastrophic climate change. |
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-====Coal production is the biggest polluter. Rhodes and Beller 2k.==== |
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-Rhodes, Richard, and Beller Denis. "The Need for Nuclear Power." Foreign Affairs 79.1 (2000): 30-44. Web. |
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-Among sources of electric-power generation, coal is the worst environmental offender. |
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-nuclear fuels, burning coal also wastes more potential energy than it produces
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-====Coal process is more harmful than nuclear process. Cohen n.d.==== |
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-Cohen, Bernard. The University of Michigan Health Physics Web Site: Risks of Nuclear Power. The University of Michigan Health Physics Web Site: Risks of Nuclear Power. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2016. |
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-Mining uranium to fuel nuclear power plants leaves "mill tailings", the residues from |
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-deaths, while an equivalent coal burning plant will eventually cause 30 deaths. |
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-====Coal power causes the most deadly radiation. Hvistendahl 07.==== |
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- Hvistendahl, Mara. "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste." Scientific American. Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2007. Web. 15 Sept. 2016. |
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-At issue is coal's content of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements. They |
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-====Newest studies prove – warming is real, anthropogenic, and almost certainly caused by emissions from fossil fuels. Phys '8/24==== |
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-Phys.org. "Humans have caused climate change for 180 years: study." Phys.org. August 24, 2016. Originally provided by Australia National University from Nature Journal. http://phys.org/news/2016-08-humans-climate-years.html JJN |
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-An international researchproject has found human activityhas been causing global warming for almost two centuries |
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-====Banning nuclear power forces increase in coal power-key to meet 2º Celsius Goal. **Roston 15====** |
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- ~~Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, "Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S." Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s-~~ JW |
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-Say what? The U.S. achieved |
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-to figure out nuclear if that envelope is to mean anything to us." |
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-====Nuclear energy decreases global warming; case study proves. Biello 13.==== |
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-Biello, David. How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming. Scientific American. N.p., 12 Dec. 2013. Web. 30 May 2016. |
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-Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record |
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-====High probability risk of extinction from climate change ==== |
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-**Meyer 4/29** ~~Robinson Meyer, associate editor at The Atlantic, where he covers technology, "Human Extinction Isn't That Unlikely," The Atlantic, April 29, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/~~ JW |
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-Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions. These are |
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-climate scientists agree that the same phenomenon would follow any major nuclear exchange.) |