Alaska: Debate over global warming is apparently not allowed, at least at the state level.

At issue is the state's contract with a group called The Center for Climate Strategies. The group has been spear-heading global warming policy across the U.S. by bypassing state legislatures.

Once a governor commissions a climate change panel, usually by executive order as Governor Palin did in 2007, the Center for Climate Strategies comes in and offers to take over according to investigative journalist Paul Chesser.

The group offers to set up meetings and infrastructure to come up with global warming strategies and to serve as the state's climate commission management team. The group even offers to provide some funding, a half-million dollars for each state, provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and other environmental groups.

In spite of that, the state is paying the group $180,000 for its services.

The state's contract with the group says there can be no debate over the science of climate change in any of its meetings.

Hong Kong: Unusual cold helps drive wild animals into populated areas

The encroachment of housing developments on the countryside and the unusually cold weather have been blamed for the increasing number of wild animals straying into populated areas over the past three years.

The changing face of the climate change controversy

On the first Earth Day in 1970, it was stated that, “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.”

This prediction did not stand alone. The general media, scientific journals, and numerous books chimed in with ominous forecasts as well. Reading from a June 24th edition of Time Magazine highlights how we have heard it all before. “Telltale signs are everywhere — from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.”