Climate change
Q. Do you believe that there is fairly conclusive evidence that climate change is happening and caused by human activity or do you believe that the evidence is still not in and we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate which happens from time to time?
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Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
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|
Jun 2011 |
Oct 2012 |
Oct 2013 |
Dec 2014 |
Mar 2015 |
Jul 2015 |
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|
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity |
56% |
72% |
42% |
88% |
49% |
|
|
50% |
48% |
52% |
57% |
54% |
56% |
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|
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate |
32% |
20% |
48% |
8% |
40% |
|
|
39% |
39% |
36% |
29% |
31% |
31% |
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Don’t know |
12% |
8% |
11% |
4% |
11% |
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|
12% |
13% |
12% |
14% |
15% |
12% |
56% (no change since July) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 32% (up 1%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate.
By age groups, those aged under 35 split 64%/23% and those aged 55+ split 47%/46%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 64%/26%.
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