I’m in the midst of a reporting trip, which means that I’m inhaling all kinds of new information while, at the same time, bereft of original ideas. Thus, a few links instead of a regular post while I do what I do.
- First, and above all else, please take a look at Uln Dice’s fabulously original China and The World Map of the Internet over at Chinayouren. It’s as good as China blogging – heck, blogging – gets, and it warrants attention. Lots of it.
- My man Charlie McElwee is going to be my go-to for any and all explanations of what, precisely, China is doing in Copenhagen. For now, though, I really appreciate his concise denunciation of the Greentech Wars at China Environmental Law Blog.
- Here at Shanghai Scrap, we strive for accuracy and frown upon people who distort data. That’s why, even though we’ve long been convinced that global warming is real, we really appreciate John Tierney’s brutal dissection of the East Anglia University climate scientists whose emails revealed them to be as interested in suppressing knowledge, as expanding it. “Smug groupthink” – Tierney’s phrase – gets at it nicely, I think.
- And, since we’re on the topic, Christina Larson at Foreign Policy correctly points out that the scientific community’s understanding of global warming hasn’t been effected – not a whit – by the East Anglia misconduct.
- A mostly praiseworthy (mostly because the author was just a little-too-obvious in his desire to snark it to Shanghai) Economist piece on the 1910 World Expo (of sorts) in Nanjing (h/t to the always great China Rhyming). In any case, if – like me – you’ve spent any time at all looking into this Expo 2010 business, you might have fallen under the impression that this Expo is the last Expo (who can top it? who would, er, want to?). So it was a bit unexpected when, this weekend, I was reminded that it isn’t:
