Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Editorial: Misinformation is blocking climate action, and the U.N. is finally calling it out

Mar 07, 2022 View Original Article
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    -6% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :Cook and his colleagues studied misinformation on conservative think-tank websites and contrarian blogs over the last 20 years and charted the evolution of the climate opposition from outright denial of the reality of human-caused climate change and toward attacking solutions such as renewable energy or seeking to discredit scientists.
38% : These dynamics help explain why U.S. politicians have failed time after time to enact significant federal climate legislation, including President Biden's stalled but desperately needed "Build Back Better" bill that includes $555 billion to spur growth in renewable energy and clean transportation.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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