Sbsp affirmative- arl lab- ndi 2011

Plan Unpopular-General

No political will – constant ignoring of SPS proves

There were over 60 launches in 2003, so last year there was enough money spent to put something into orbit about every week on average. Funding was found to launch science satellites to study gravity waves and to explore other planets. There are also dozens of GPS satellites in orbit that help people find out where they are on the ground. Is there enough money available for these purposes, but not enough to launch even one solar power satellite that would help the world develop a new source of energy? In the 2004 budget the Department of Energy has over $260 million allocated for fusion research. Obviously the government has some interest in funding renewable energy research and they realize that private companies would not be able to fund the development of a sustainable fusion industry on their own. From this perspective, the barrier holding back solar power satellites is not purely financial, but rather the problem is that there is not enough political will to make the money available for further development.

Plan Unpopular- Fossil Fuel Lobby

Congress won’t pass the plan – fossil fuel lobbies

Gartner, ‘4 - Writer for Wired [John, 6/22/2004, Wired, “NASA Spaces on Energy Solution,” http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/06/63913, DS]
Neville Marzwell, advanced concepts innovation technology manager at NASA, spent five years researching methods of improving a satellite's ability to collect solar energy before his program was cut. Marzwell claims that politics played a part in the decision to kill the space solar power program. The United States "doesn't have the political will to fund the research" because of pressure from fossil-fuel lobbyists, Marzwell said. "We could have become the Saudi Arabia of the world electricity market," Marzwell said. But because the coal and oil industries don't want threats to their profits, they applied political pressure, causing the program to be scrapped, according to Marzwell.

They’re key to the agenda – past elections prove massive clout

Goldenberg, ’10 – US environment correspondent for the Guardian [Suzanne, 11/1/2010, The Guardian, “Big Oil spends $69.5m on ads to get the Congress it wants,” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/01/us-midterm-elections-2010-oil-lobby-climate-sceptic, DS]
The next Congress is expected to throw up a whole new set of roadblocks to Barack Obama's environmental agenda - from time-consuming investigations to budget cuts. So how much was the fossil fuel industries willing to pay to help cast out White House allies on energy and climate change? A lot, it turns out. Oil and coal lobby groups have spent $69.5 million on television ads specifically targetted against Obama clean energy policies in these mid-term elections, according to data compiled by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. That's a 10-to-1 advantage over clean energy groups. Opinion polls are all predicting big wins in tomorrow's elections for Republicans, especially Tea Party candidates. Most of the Tea Party favourites deny the existence of man-made climate change, and some Democrats, like Joe Manchin who is running for the Senate from West Virginia, are doing all they can to distance themselves from Democratic environmental policies. Manchin, in his television ads, fired a round into a target labelled cap-and-trade. The only bright spot could be California, where a coalition led by the outgoing Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silicon Valley and Venture Capital, have raised $30 million to defend the state's climate law from Texas oil refiners. Two Texas oil refiners, Valero and Tesoro, as well as a subsidiary owned by the billionaire Koch brothers mustered $10 million to block California's milestone climate change law, which mandates 25% cuts in emissions by 2020. The mid-term election ad buys were an expensive finish to what has been a big PR year overall for oil and coal. The energy industry spent $247.5 million on advertising this year, according to data compiled by the Alliance for Climate Protection, the campaigning group started by Al Gore. Much of that was dedicated to damage control. BP spent $125 million on its "We'll make this right" television ads after the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Massey Energy, owner of a West Virginia mine where 29 were killed in an explosion last April, spent $965,000 on advertising.

***NASA Trade-Off***

N/U Cuts Now

Alt causes to the internal link – science cuts across the board should trigger the impact

Fox News 7/16 [7/16/11, " US Science Community Suffers Setbacks Despite Obama's Push for More Investing ", http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/16/us-science-community-suffers-setbacks-despite-obamas-push-for-more-investing/, DS]
As President Obama pushes for more spending on science education and research to keep America globally competitive, the nation’s scientific community continues to suffer a number of setbacks that appears to undermine the president’s goal. The U.S. is abandoning its space shuttle program, closing the Tevatron, considering defunding the James Webb Space Scope (Hubble’s replacement) and could possibly reject a cutting-edge underground research lab that would restore some prestige to the field of U.S. science. More than 140 scientific societies and universities sent a letter this week warning U.S. policymakers not to target specific science research programs in their negotiations to cut government spending in exchange for raising the debt limit. “Everyone understands that legislators face tremendous challenges related to the deficit and the national economy,” said Joanne Carney, director of the Office of Government Relations at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “But recently, selected research areas have been unfairly trivialized based on misinformation intended to challenge the scientific review process.” In the letter, the group warned that cutting support for key fields of research “could have a chilling effect on scientists and young people considering a future in science.” The group argued that social, behavioral and economic research sheds light on U.S. demographic trends, criminal behaviors, decision-making processes crucial to military and national security operations, among other things. “Simply put, we need all scientists and scientific disciplines working -- alone and together -- to advance our knowledge base,” the group said. “Allocating federal investments competitively through scientific merit review is the very process that has led this country to be a world leader in science.” But the past few months have been filled with setbacks for science advocates.  Earlier this month, NASA launched its final space shuttle mission after its 30-year program ended, leaving Russia’s space capsules as the sole option for astronauts heading to and from the International Space Station.  The U.S. Energy Department announced earlier this year that it was shutting down by the end of September the Tevatron, the nation’s largest particle accelerator located outside of Chicago, because the agency could no longer count on the annual $35 million to keep it running until 2014.  Late last year, the oversight board of the National Science Foundation dropped out of a planned $875-million underground science lab in South Dakota, leaving the future of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in doubt. The National Science Board rejected requests from the lab’s designers for more money after burning through the $19 million allocated. And the board didn’t like its proposed role in the project that would have made the foundation part of a stewardship program to run the lab.  Last week, the House Appropriations Committee released its funding bill for Commerce, Justice and Science for the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The bill eliminates funding for the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next-generation space telescope which would be the successor to Hubble and is the space agency’s biggest post-shuttle project. The committee says the project is billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management. “This legislation includes funding for some of the most critical aspects of government,” House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said in a statement. “However, given this time of fiscal crisis, it is also important that Congress make tough decisions to cut programs where necessary to give priority to programs with broad national reach that have the most benefit to the American people.”

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