Mashable: Malcolm Turnbull has replaced climate change doubter and coal industry booster Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister This means that one of the world's least enthusiastic backers of a new climate treaty has just been removed from the global stage -- less than three months before a crucial round of climate talks.
While vowing to retain the party's policies on climate and other matters for now, Turnbull holds views more aligned with mainstream science than his predecessor did. Abbott has been...