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+====Nuclear is key to stability of warming and aff prevents this from happening==== |
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+**Waldman '15: - 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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+they provide is typically quite cheap and not sensitive to fuel price volatility. |
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+====Nuclear power counter-acts greenhouse emissions==== |
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+**Biello '13: 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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+Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where Hansen works |
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+====Prohibition is empirically verified to cause a shift back to fossil fuels.==== |
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+**Chameides '12, Bill (Dean of Nicholas School of the Environment 2007-2014, Professor Emeritus at Duke University). "The Nuclear Power Conundrum." Nicholas School of the Environment. Duke University, 5 July 2012. Web. http3A2F2Fblogs.nicholas.duke.edu2Fthegreengrok2Fnuke-conundrum2F** |
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+What to do when your favorite nuclear plant gets shut down? One ~~the |
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+AND |
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+off coal plants first? You have to do one or the other." |
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+====Fossil fuels increase CO2 emissions which are the strongest internal ink to warming.==== |
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+**NWF '15, National Wildlife Federation, 2015. "Global Warming is human caused". National Wildlife Federation. https://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Threats-to-Wildlife/Global-Warming/Global-Warming-is-Human-Caused.aspx.** |
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+Scientists have concluded that most of the observed warming is very likely due to the |
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+atmosphere. This CO2 is the biggest factor responsible for recent warming trends. |
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+====And, IAEA confirms Prohibiting nuclear leads to fossil fuels tradeoff, which is substantially worse.==== |
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+**Kharecha '13: A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen. April 2013. "Fossil Fuels Do Far More Harm Than Nuclear Power". Web. http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/15/fossil-fuels-do-far-more-harm-than-nuclear-power/.** |
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+To compute potential future effects, we started with projected nuclear energy supply for 2010 |
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+mitigation burden for meeting this target by as much as 16–48. |
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+====Thus, Warming causes multiple scenarios for extinction==== |
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+**Hansen '12: James Hansen, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and at Columbia's Earth Institute, and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, "Game Over for the Climate," http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html** |
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+Canada's tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount |
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+— and it's because we are forcing them higher with fossil fuel emissions. |