Inside Climate News Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Inside Climate News according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: -9.15

Reliability: 45.80

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the source’s overall bias score.

To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart®️, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields-5.6746.0
Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?-5.3351.67
In the Race to Develop the Best Solar Power Materials, What If the Key Ingredient Is Effort?-241.33
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08072019/climate-change-migration-honduras-drought-crop-failure-farming-deforestation-guatemala-trump/-7.6750.0
New EPA Rule Change Saves Industry Money but Exacts a Climate Cost-646.33
A Plant in Florida Emits Vast Quantities of a Greenhouse Gas Nearly 300 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide-447.67
‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe-5.3346.0
How Maryland’s Preference for Burning Trash Galvanized Environmental Activists in Baltimore-548.33
Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980-5.3346.67
In the Battle Over the Senate, Both Parties’ Candidates Are Playing to the Middle on Climate Change-9.3338.67
Senate 2020: Mitch McConnell Now Admits Human-Caused Global Warming Exists. But He Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan-6.3344.67
Analysts See Democrats Likely to Win the Senate, Opening the Door to Climate Legislation-14.545.75
When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy-14.546.0
The Polls Showed Democrats Poised to Reclaim the Senate. Then Came Election Day.-9.2546.0
As Biden Eyes a Conservation Plan, Activists Fear Low-Income Communities and People of Color Could Be Left Out-11.2545.0
Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them-10.546.25
The First African American Cardinal Is a Climate Change Leader-9.6744.67
Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign-11.6744.0
Is Climate-Related Financial Regulation Coming Under Biden? Wall Street Is Betting on It-944.33
Biden’s Appointment of John Kerry as Climate Envoy Sends a ‘Signal to the World,’ Advocates Say-9.3345.67
Newsom’s Top Five Candidates for Kamala Harris’s Senate Seat All Have Climate in Their Bios-9.6745.33
Biden Put Climate at the Heart of His Campaign. Now He’s Delivered Groundbreaking Nominees-10.3344.67
If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?-348.0
UN Report: Despite Falling Energy Demand, Governments Set on Increasing Fossil Fuel Production0.3347.33
United Nations Chief Warns of a ‘Moment of Truth for People and Planet’-6.8344.67