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Concern about climate change

16 Dec 2014

Q. Over the last 2 years, have you become more concerned or less concerned about the environmental effects of global warming or do you feel about the same as you did 2 years ago?

 

Total

 

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

 

Sep 14

Total more concerned

51%

62%

38%

78%

47%

52%

Total less concerned

9%

5%

16%

3%

9%

9%

Much more concerned

21%

31%

11%

40%

16%

22%

A little more concerned

30%

31%

27%

38%

31%

30%

About the same

35%

29%

43%

17%

43%

35%

A little less concerned

6%

4%

10%

3%

6%

6%

Much less concerned

3%

1%

6%

3%

3%

Don’t know

5%

3%

3%

3%

2%

4%

51% say they have become more concerned about the environmental effects of global warming over the last two years and 9% have become less concerned – 35% feel about the same.

These results are very similar to those when this question was asked in September.

Those most likely to have become more concerned were Labor voters (62%), Greens voters (78%) and people with university degrees (62%).

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