Climate Change
Curator: Alex HellingDebate ID: 16 Bibliography: <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/asia/11coal.html">Bradsher, Keith. "China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired...
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Curator: Alex HellingDebate ID: 42 Bibliography: <p><a href="http://deforestationintheamazon.wordpress.com/facts/"> 'Deforestation in the Amazon: Facts' by Ryan...
View ArticleThis House believes we're too late on global climate change
Global Climate Change, formally referred to as global warming, is the largest threat facing the long term survival of the human species.Motion: This house believes we're too late on global climate...
View ArticleThis house would tax aviation fuel.
The debate over whether international aviation should be taxed brings together two global problems: how to control emissions that cause climate change; and how to find additional funding for...
View ArticleThis House believes that a cap-and-trade system is preferable to a carbon tax...
It is generally agreed among most academics, and is generally assumed during BP and Worlds format debates, that global warming exists as a phenomenon. Further, it is generally agreed that carbon...
View ArticleResolved: Adaptation should be the most urgent response to Climate Change.
There are several definitions of adaptation in this context but, broadly, it is the idea that climate change is a reality, and that changes in human and natural systems will allow humanity to both...
View ArticleThis House would cease the exploitation of the Arctic Region
Perhaps ironically, one of the effects of climate change has been to open up new areas of the polar caps – previously unreachable –for use by human beings, including for mineral extraction. The...
View ArticleThis House would, as the developed world, fund African climate adaptation
The latest report (fifth) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the blame for climate change firmly on humanity. The chair of the working group on Physical Science notes “We...
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