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?

	Total		Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other		Nov 2009	Dec 2010	Jun 2011	Oct 2012	Oct 2013	Dec 2014	Nov 2015	Aug 2016	Dec 2016
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	60%		75%	49%	90%	44%		53%	45%	50%	48%	52%	57%	56%	57%	54%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	25%		14%	37%	3%	41%		34%	36%	39%	39%	36%	29%	32%	26%	27%
Don’t know	14%		10%	13%	7%	15%		13%	19%	12%	13%	12%	14%	12%	17%	18%

 

60% (up 6% since December) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 25% (down 2%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate.

By age groups, those aged under 35 split 70%/15% and those aged 55+ split 47%/40%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 72%/19%.