Climate change

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?

	Total		Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other			Dec 2010	Jun 2011	Oct 2012	Oct 2013	Dec 2014	Nov 2015
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	63%		76%	46%	94%	56%			45%	50%	48%	52%	57%	56%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	27%		19%	42%	3%	35%			36%	39%	39%	36%	29%	32%
Don’t know	10%		5%	12%	3%	9%			19%	12%	13%	12%	14%	12%

63% (up 7% since November) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 27% (down 5%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is the highest recorded agreement that climate change is happening and caused by human activity over the last 7 years.

By age groups, those aged under 35 split 70%/18% and those aged 55+ split 48%/46%.