Warming Greenstein 6/20

Global Warming Global increase in temperature of the atmosphere

Greenhouse Gases Traps heat from the sun in the atmosphere
Why is Global Warming Good?
1. CO2: When we pollute we helps plants grow key to food and save lives
a. Look for evidence that explains how CO2 helps all parts of plants grow
a. bigger roots
b. better soil
c. makes them bigger
d. more resistant
e. better seeds
f. better reproduction
b. Talk about specific crops
a. Winter Wheat can provide stability in Pakistan civil war impact
b. Mexican Corn solves extinction
c. Rice China, civil war and CCP instability
c. Diverse impacts about certain plants
a. Feed Earthworms
b. Birds key to biodiversity
c. Soil Erosion
d. Monoculture
e. If the aff reads generics they probably dont apply
d. Increasing CO2 solves Global Warming
a. CO2 creates sinks (large cluster of plants)
1. Plants eat Co2 as there food
a. If they form networks with other plants they can
suck in more Co2
i. Tropical Sinks are good
2. More Co2 in the air makes plants release biological
aerosols
a. Aerosols can help cool the earth because it reflects
light and energy back into the atmosphere
b. Has a net cooling affect on the affect of warming
3. Night Warming: If warming occurs it will happen at night
a. Cloudiness decrease evaporation during the day and
increase condensation that causes warming at night
b. If there is warming at night, it helps plants because
there is more time for plants to go through
photosynthesis
c. More moisture
i. More condensation so they live longer
4. Warming will occur during winter

a. If warming occurs in the winter it extends the

warming season for plants
5. CO2 saturation: Michaels and Balling that there are
bandwidths in the air and they store Co2 but they fill up
and if they can no longer hold water they get full, if they
are right that they are full then it doesnt matter how much
more we put C02 in the air cause the bands are full
e. Answers to Arguments
a. They will say too much CO2 hurts plants because it overwhelms
then
b. There are good plants and bad plants (C3 vs. C4)
1. CO2 makes all the bad plants crowd out the good plants
a. Answer it with that the bad plants are a good source
of food
b. More Co2 helps plant species coexist
c. CO2 helps weeds and they help plants
1. CO2 helps plants so much that they can become resistant to
weeds
d. CO2 helps insects and pests thats bad cause it kills all the crops
1. CO2 helps plants become resistant
2. CO2 hurts pests
f. Why its the best
a. You can read this argument with Warming Defense
b. All the Aff answers are extremely predictable so you can get really
prepared and update your answers
c. Its so sciency you can keep innovating and come up with new
arguments
1. Theres evidence that increasing Co2 in certain plants
increase isocream, decrease tannins and increase BPVCs
and that this has a net cooling effect
2. SO2 sulfur dioxide
a. the aff decreases pollution and SO2 is an aerosol and it reflects light and
energy back into the air and has a net cooling affect on the planet
b. also increases cloud albedo (the amount clouds reflect light and energy) so
they have a net cooling affect
c. Global Dimming
d. Not quite as strong
e. Tricks
a. Maybe read it in the block
1. Though If they straight turn it youre in trouble
f. Answers to common arguments
a. When you increase SO2 you increase acid rain
1. It kills plants a link turn to the CO2 turn

b. SO2 disperses poorly so it cant overcome the affect of CO2

1. CO2 has a global affect while SO2 is regional
c. It hurts oceans increases ocean acidification
d. Even if the plan decreases SO2 its not that bad cause there are
natural sources of SO2
1. Volcanoes when they erupt it sends dust into the air and
the dust reflects light
g. Value of this argument
a. You can also read this with some Warming Defense be careful
though
1. Cant read it with Warming Not Real
2. Can read it with C02 doesnt cause warming
b. There are only a few argument to answer this
3. Polar Melting
a. Warming causes melting in areas near Russia and thats needed for them to
get access to oil thats key Russian economy, extinction
b. Tricks
a. You can say that warming makes melting inevitable but the speed
at which Russia can access that oil is key to their economy
c. Answers to Common Arguments
a. Warming Bad be ready to answer them all
b. You need to debate all of the Oil impacts
c. Dutch Disease when a country relies on one main export it
hurts the economy
d. Impact turns to Ice melting
d. Value of this argument
a. It interacts well with a lot of Aff advantages
1. Economy Russia key to economy
2. Peak Oil Russia access to oil
3. Trade Impacts if the arctic ice melts that opens up
shipping lanes for trade
e. Can be impact turned by sea level rise
4. Ice Age
a. There should be an ice age but because we warm the earth a lot, it holds
off the Ice Age
b. Tricks
a. Felix Not By Fire But By Ice it would be worse than all
countries detonating all their nukes at once
b. A lot of scientists believe that we should be in an Ice Age right
now
1. Milancovich cycles
a. As the earth rotates, the length, axis, and speed of
its rotations change over time
c. Answers to Common Arguments

a. Warming Impacts
b. No Ice Age
c. Warming causes cooling, without it Ice Age is inevitable
1. Warming melts ice in the arctic and antarctic region
a. Decreases temperature and salinity (amount of salt)
of ocean water
i. Drives the ocean conveyor belt why they
contribute to warming
1. North Atlantic Drift makes London
warm while Northern Canada is cold
ii. Warming messes up the cooling belt and
stops the North Atlantic Drift
d. Value of this Argument
a. Few arguments against it
b. Consensus we should be in an Ice Age right now
e. Dont read this
5. Warming doesnt exist
a. Proponents believers
a. Use computer models to predict the future temperatures
b. What controls temperatures
1. Sun
2. Wind currents
3. Ocean Currents
4. Gases
a. Cow farts
5. Clouds
c. Its really hard to predict future temperatures accurately with
computer equations
1. Human Error
2. Slight Error
d. Good evidence saying its inaccurate
b. Skeptics non-believers
a. Use satellite and balloons data to measure climate
1. Can see global climate
2. Can measure where climate change occurs (in troposphere
and stratosphere)
b. Urban heat island effect if you take temperature measurements
over urban areas its hotter than normal
c. We dont take measurements over the ocean it would be colder
than normal
c. What are they going to say causes warming?
a. Anthropogenic caused by humans
1. Find an alternate cause
a. Natural CO2
i. Plate tectonics

ii. Methane
iii. Sun solar variations
1. One of the better arguments
2. Natural Oscillations
3. Cosmic Ray flux
b. Positive Feedbacks warming will happen really fast, something
that causes something else that increases warming (Permafrost if
the ice melts, permafrost gets released and increases warming)
1. Say its a Negative Feedback warming causes stuff that
decreases warming
a. Clouds
b. Water Vapor
c. Volcanoes
6. The Qualifications Debate
a. Usually occurs when debating whether warming is real or not
b. Great evidence saying Skeptics get paid off by oil companies
c. Just as good evidence that the Proponents get paid by the government
because they are interested in alternative energy technology
d. If your neg
a. Read Prodicts positive things about your authors
b. Read Indicts negative things about there authors
c. Say that the way the judge should resolve the debate is about the
better science, ignore who gets paid cause everyone does, talk
about why satellite data is better
e. The IPCC got all the scientists together and released summaries of there
research
a. Defend Global Warming real
1. The problem is that less than 75% were willing to sign the
document
a. A lot of scientists didnt agree that warming is real
b. Some dont think it was a true consensus
2. Find evidence that they manufactured consensus that global
warming is real
b. They will say were peer-reviewed
1. So is negative evidence
f. The NIPCC a true consensus that warming does not exist
7. Cannot solve Warming
a. Best argument against warming
b. The Aff only solves a small part of US warming, its a global phenomena
a. Hard to convince other countries to join a regime or sign a treaty
c. Great evidence saying China is key and that people emitting in China wont
listen to governmental officials and keep emitting
d. Past the tipping point its too late

a. No matter how much we reduce and because of all of their positive

feedback arguments its impossible to stop it
8. Strategy
a. Best way to best Warming advantages is too give yourself ton of options
a. Say they dont solve warming, it doesnt exist, CO2 doesnt cause
warming, CO2 turn
b. Counterplan to solve warming
1. Tons of advantage counterplans
a. Though if it decreases CO2 the CO2 turn isnt a net
benefit
2. Cut a counterplan to solve warming but doesnt decrease
CO2, now the turn is a net benefit
a. Geo-engineering change the way the world works,
manual change in the world temperature
9. Warming 1AC
a. Strategic 1AC
a. Diverse Impacts to why Warming is bad
b. Warming kills plants
c. Read impacts to pollution more leverage against CO2 and SO2
d. 2 Sets of blocks to answer all the Warming DAs
1. 1 where you straight turn it
2. 1 where you dont