Australia - from leaders to queue jumpers - to the back of the queue

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ustralia only recently had a government that was setting the pace on climate change mitigation, but now it has rushed to the back of the queue, and the people here seem happy about that.

U.S. President Barack Obama - prepared
 to tackle climate change

Australian’s are among the world’s best (not a title we should be at all proud of) at denying that humans are responsible for the climate changing global warming.

Americans, like Australians are among the world worst per-capita polluters, and the most strident deniers, but at least the U.S., unlike Australia, has a leader prepared to do something about changing the country’s culture, and its behaviour.

EcoWatch reports: “President Barack Obama declared Sunday that his administration is poised to unroll greater-than-expected cuts to greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants, in what he called “the biggest, most important steps we’ve ever taken to combat climate change.”

Read the EcoWatch story - “President Obama: ‘It’s Time for America and the World to Act on Climate Change’”.