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+====Climate denial low on campuses but about to rise with Trump==== |
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+**Waldman 12/9** (Scott Climate deniers prepare for domination EandE News 12/9/16 http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/09/stories/1060046920 DOA 2/3/17) CW |
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+It's a new dawn for climate skepticism, denial and doubt. And yesterday, |
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+small group of people with one philosophy shouldn't be brainwashing my grandkids with." |
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+====US key – undermines international efforts==== |
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+**Straits Times 1/31** (US will change course on climate policy, says former EPA transition head Straits Times 1/31/17 http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-will-change-course-on-climate-policy-says-former-epa-transition-head DOA 2/3/17) CW |
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+Trump, a climate sceptic, campaigned on a pledge to boost the US oil |
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+president Maros Sefcovic, who was a key broker in clinching Paris agreement. |
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+====Climate denialism guts public consensus necessary for effective policy discussion==== |
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+**Lewandowsky and Cook 14** - Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol and Climate Communication Research Fellow, The University of Queensland (Stephan and John Establishing consensus is vital for climate action The Conversation 2/7/14 https://theconversation.com/establishing-consensus-is-vital-for-climate-action-22861 DOA 2/3/17) CW |
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+There is clear evidence that closing the gap between the scientific consensus and the perception |
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+on climate science and the overwhelming consensus, not the research supporting it. |
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+====College campuses uniquely key to combat climate change==== |
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+**Faust and Hennessy 14 **– Presidents of Harvard University and Stanford University (Drew Gilpin and John L. What Universities Can Do About Climate Change Huffington Post 9/23/14 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-gilpin-faust/post'8366'b'5871214.html DOA 2/3/17) CW |
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+Educating informed, effective citizens of the world is a central part of the mission |
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+the new technologies and policies that will be needed to sustain our ecosystem. |
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+====Climate change definitively causes extinction – global agreements key==== |
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+**Sharp and Kennedy 14 –** (Associate Professor Robert (Bob) A. Sharp is the UAE National Defense College Associate Dean for Academic Programs and College Quality Assurance Advisor. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) in the U.S. National Defense University (NDU), Washington D.C. and then as Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, collocated with NDU. Most recently at NESA, he focused on security sector reform in Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported regional security engagement events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Qatar; Edward Kennedy is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets; 8/22/14, "Climate Change and Implications for National Security," International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/, Accessed 7/11/16, HWilson) |
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+Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was |
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+investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix! |