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NC Extensions: A/t - #7 “Rules Do Not Go Far Enough” [1/2] 293
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2NC Extensions: A/t - #7 “Rules Do Not Go Far Enough” [1/2] 2931) Their evidence isn’t comparative. Our evidence says that 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from power plants, which Obama’s rules will solve. They can’t prove how bad fracking is, which means you should defer to our evidence. 2) U.S. policy is key – we have the economy to develop new technologies, and leadership creates modeling for other countries. FIELD, 13 [Chris, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science and co-chair of a working group tasked with assessing climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; “Obama is right on climate change”, 6/29, http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/opinion/field-obama-climate-change] Why is U.S. leadership so important? First, the United States has the necessary skills in science and technology, the tradition of innovation, and the mature capital markets to boldly seize opportunities. Building the energy system of the 21st century is perhaps the greatest business opportunity of the era. It will involve a wide range of technologies that emit little or no carbon dioxide, with greatly increased energy efficiency in vehicles, buildings, and equipment. Second, the U.S. is the only nation that can truly focus the world's attention on the climate problem. When the U.S. hangs back, it is easy for other countries to question goals or get tangled in internal politics. U.S. leadership is critical in supercharging the international effort. Today is the day to start. 2NC Extensions: A/t - #7 “Rules Do Not Go Far Enough” [2/2] 2943) Even if the rules don’t completely stop warming, it is necessary to slow its rate so that humans and ecosystems have time to adapt. BAUM, ET AL, 12 [Seth, Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University; Chris Karmosky, professor of Geography at Penn State University; Jacob Haqq-Misra, Meteorology and Astrobiology Research Center; "Climate Change: Evidence of Human Causes and Arguments for Emissions Reduction," June, Science and Engineering Ethics 18(2)] In general, what is of importance is not only how much the sea level rises, but also how fast this rise occurs, because a rapid rise gives humans and ecosystems less time to adapt to the change. There is presently much concern that an abrupt ice sheet collapse could cause a rapid sea level rise. The WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet] is particularly prone to abrupt collapse because it rests on ground that lies below sea level. If the surrounding oceans warm enough, then WAIS could rapidly disintegrate. Meanwhile, the Antarctic Peninsula, home to the northernmost fringes of WAIS, is undergoing perhaps the largest increase in temperature of any location on the planet (King et al. 2002; Turner et al. 2005), and there are already some warning signs that a WAIS collapse could be in progress. 3 Thus, abrupt WAIS collapse is a major cause for concern. However, it is not known if or when such a collapse is likely to occur. 4) The rules create policy stability because after Obama leaves office, there will be too much momentum for climate regulations to be reversed. NATIONAL JOURNAL, 13 [Ronald Brownstein; “Time Is Ticking for Obama’s Climate Agenda”, 6/28, http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/time-is-ticking-for-obama-s-climate-agenda-20130627] A Republican president could more easily sidetrack an uncompleted rule (as George W. Bush did with Bill Clinton’s unfinished work on mercury pollution). But if Obama finishes the EPA regulation, his successor would need a formal rulemaking to undo it—no easy task. A GOP president might find it tough even to stop legally defending a completed regulation, because blue states and environmentalists would intervene to defend it, notes Natural Resources Defense Council Climate Director Daniel Lashof. Most important, Lashof says, once the rule is done, utilities will make investments based on it that “create a momentum that … becomes increasingly difficult” to reverse. As with health care, Obama’s best chance of ensuring that his climate priorities outlast him is to move quickly to create facts on the ground. 2NC Extensions: A/t - #8 “Winners Win” 2951) The plan is not a win for Obama. Our link evidence proves that Latin American aid is seen as wasteful and angers Republicans, who are more likely to backlash on other issues than to switch sides and support a new regulation. 2) If the plan is unpopular, then winners end up losing. Obama will blow so much effort on the plan that he will not have the energy or resources for any followup issues. Health care reform proves that passing an unpopular item collapses the President’s broader agenda. HIRSCH, 13 [Michael, chief correspondent for National Journal; “There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital”, 5/30, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207] Presidents are limited in what they can do by time and attention span, of course, just as much as they are by electoral balances in the House and Senate. But this, too, has nothing to do with political capital. Another well-worn meme of recent years was that Obama used up too much political capital passing the health care law in his first term. But the real problem was that the plan was unpopular, the economy was bad, and the president didn’t realize that the national mood (yes, again, the national mood) was at a tipping point against big-government intervention, with the tea-party revolt about to burst on the scene. For Americans in 2009 and 2010—haunted by too many rounds of layoffs, appalled by the Wall Street bailout, aghast at the amount of federal spending that never seemed to find its way into their pockets—government-imposed health care coverage was simply an intervention too far. So was the idea of another economic stimulus. Cue the tea party and what ensued: two titanic fights over the debt ceiling. Obama, like Bush, had settled on pushing an issue that was out of sync with the country’s mood. Unlike Bush, Obama did ultimately get his idea passed. But the bigger political problem with health care reform was that it distracted the government’s attention from other issues that people cared about more urgently, such as the need to jump-start the economy and financial reform. Various congressional staffers told me at the time that their bosses didn’t really have the time to understand how the Wall Street lobby was riddling the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation with loopholes. Health care was sucking all the oxygen out of the room, the aides said. 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