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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Nov 09 |
Dec 10 |
Jun 11 |
Oct 12 |
Oct 13 |
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Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
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| Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity |
53% |
45% |
50% |
48% |
52% |
51% |
70% |
29% |
80% |
46% |
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| We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate |
34% |
36% |
39% |
39% |
36% |
39% |
22% |
61% |
10% |
41% |
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| Don’t know |
13% |
19% |
12% |
13% |
12% |
11% |
8% |
10% |
10% |
12% |
51% agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 39% believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is a similar result to when this question was previously asked in October last year.
By age groups, those aged under 35 split 55%/32% and those aged 55+ split 43%/48%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 59%/29%.
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