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		<title>Energy Demand Jumped during Canada-US Gold Medal Game</title>
		<link>http://howiechong.com/2010/03/energy-demand-jumped-during-canada-us-gold-medal-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s an interesting fact:  according to Ontario&#8217;s Independent Electricity System Operator (who&#8217;s responsible for connecting all users and producers of power in Canada&#8217;s largest province), the demand for electricity shot up significantly during the Canada-US Gold Medal hockey game of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
The IESO measured an increase of 300MW right before the game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Copenhagen Part 2:  The Goods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howie</dc:creator>
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Yesterday I posted my opinions on the three negative outcomes of the Copenhagen conference on climate change.  Today, we&#8217;ll go over the big-picture positives.

1.  Countries Didn&#8217;t Walk Away
Despite having all these world leaders meet in Copenhagen only to shuffle home with their tail between their legs, none of the parties decided to walk away from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Copenhagen Part 1:  The Bads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s been some time since I&#8217;ve posted here, having spent most of January and February (a) recovering from a month away and (b) catching up on work.
Now that I&#8217;ve had a nice vacation, caught up on some work and had some time to reflect on the results of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, it&#8217;s about time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternate Copenhagen Venues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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With the Bella Center barred to all non-governmental agencies, those unable to enter the main COP15 venue are forced to spend time at other venues if they&#8217;re to continue with climate-related events in and around Copenhagen

Copenhagen Towers
Only one Metro stop away from the Bella Center, this is the venue likely second in importance only to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference, Canada in Disarray as Second Week Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Week Two began at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, confusion reigned as numbers exploded, positions entrenched and pressure mounted.

COP15 Stalls
Fresh from a weekend of an enormous peaceful climate march (where a minority, but sizable number of people were arrested) over the weekend, the conference talks continued to be stalled on key issues dividing rich and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Announcement Good for Global Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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The biggest news out of Copenhagen over the past 24 hours did not originate in the Danish capital, but rather from Washington DC, where the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that Carbon Dioxide and the five other major greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human and environmental health.  The annoncement makes the creation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Vous allez a Copenhague?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a quarter past one in the afternoon in Montmartre.  I&#8217;m sitting in a café right outside Métro Pigalle after having spent the morning looking for a wifi connection.
Annette and I arrived at 6:30 Central European time with 14 hours to kill before our 20h30 flight to Copenhagen.  By pure chance we&#8217;ve already shared a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons to Follow the Copenhagen Climate Talks</title>
		<link>http://howiechong.com/2009/12/five-reasons-to-follow-the-copenhagen-climate-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://howiechong.com/2009/12/five-reasons-to-follow-the-copenhagen-climate-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Starting next week, over 20,000 people will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss how the world should tackle climate change.
Officially called the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the two week-long meeting will (hopefully) culminate with a global road map on how humanity will tackle global warming.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Scientists doesn&#8217;t mean Bad Science</title>
		<link>http://howiechong.com/2009/11/bad-scientists-doesnt-mean-bad-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Frum, formerly a key advisor to George W. Bush, writes in the National Post about the scandal plaguing climate scientists from the University of East Anglia, where emails obtained by outsiders seem to suggest that scientists fudged their climate numbers.
Frum&#8217;s point:  just because some scientists did bad does not make the entire science of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Emissions targets will produce global emissions growth</title>
		<link>http://howiechong.com/2009/11/chinese-emissions-targets-will-produce-global-emissions-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://howiechong.com/2009/11/chinese-emissions-targets-will-produce-global-emissions-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese government will announce its intention to cut it&#8217;s emissions intensity by 40-45% of 2005 in Copenhagen in December.
Assuming that China&#8217;s economy continues grow at 9-10% of GDP each year, that will mean that China&#8217;s emissions will more than double their 2005 emissions.

Though seemingly impressive, a reduction in emissions intensity will still mean a [...]]]></description>
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