links for 2008-04-15

• Satellite dish clampdown in Shanghai
  In many Chinese cities, it costs a few thousand yuan to have a satellite dish and hacked decoder installed in an apartment. As long as Chinese TV continues to be so vanilla, the government will not be able to get rid of these 'illegal' satellite dishes.
  (tags: china television)
• Instapundit.com - Hurricane Expert Reassesses Link to Warming
  some of the public spokescientists have gotten ahead of the science, and others at least have muted any criticism of, say, Al Gore's stretching of the truth. When you allow your work to be politicized, politics follow.
  (tags: weather globalwarming)
• Beijing takes sweeping measures to combat pollution ahead of Olympics - International Herald Tribune
  they represent the most concrete scenario for how Beijing will reach its long-standing pledge to stage a "green games" (GZE2 - and after the games are over...everything goes back to the way they were...a charade)
  (tags: china environment olympics pollution)