Stepping up or back, coming is starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves,droughts, wars and disease

U.S. President, Barack Obama,
'steps up to the plate'.

Australia steps back from combatting climate change and America, in baseball parlance, ‘steps up to the plate’.

An international scientific report warns that man-made climate change will worsen such things as starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, wars and disease.

An executive order from U.S. President, Barack Obama, wants his government to take steps to prepare America for the difficulties inherent in a changing climate.

In a story headed: “Leaked climate change report predicts violent,poorer, sicker future”, says that cities, where most of the world’s people live, are the most vulnerable.

Australia’s new Coalition Government appears to be burying its head further in the sand, while the Americans, at least Barack Obama and his Democrats, appear prepared to acknowledge and do what it can to combat the causes of climate change.