Want to See the Future of Climate Politics? Look to Australia.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Chastened by the polling data on climate, some members of the Liberal-National Coalition tried to temper their message in the final weeks of the campaign, silencing the outright climate deniers in their ranks, while offering a few talking points on clean energy.
49% : They have failed to prevent the coal industry -- personified in its marionette Joe Manchin -- from setting the pace on the clean energy transition.
45% : In Australia, a governing party that failed to address the crisis -- whose prime minister once brought a lump of coal to Parliament, brandishing it like some shamanic talisman -- was swept out of office as abruptly and decisively as if it'd been caught in the Brisbane floodwaters (which, in essence, it had been).

*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.