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?

	Nov’19	Mar’19	Oct’18	Sep’17	Aug’16
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	61%	62%	63%	64%	57%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	28%	27%	25%	24%	26%
Don’t know	11%	12%	13%	12%	17%
Base (n)	1,083	1,089	1,027	1,011	1,022

 

	Total	Gender		Age			Voting Intention
		Male	Female	18-34	35-54	55+	Labor	Coalition	Greens	NET: Other
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	61%	59%	63%	74%	61%	50%	74%	47%	89%	44%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	28%	32%	25%	18%	25%	41%	16%	43%	1%	48%
Don’t know	11%	9%	12%	8%	15%	9%	10%	10%	10%	7%
Base (n)	1,083	527	556	329	369	385	342	373	93	162

 61% believe that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity. This is consistent with previous results in Mar’19 (62%) and Oct’18 (63%).

• 28% believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate, no change from earlier in the year (27% in March).
• By age groups, those aged 18-34 were most likely to believe in man-made climate change (74%) and those over 55+ least so (50%).
• Less than half of Coalition votes (47%) believe that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity.