Position on Climate Change

Q. Do you agree 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		Nov 09	Dec 10
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	52%	71%	34%	78%		53%	45%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	36%	20%	54%	14%		34%	36%
Don’t know	12%	8%	12%	8%		13%	19%

52% agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 36% believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is a significant increase in the belief that climate change is happening and caused by human activity since December last year (and a return to the levels recorded in November 2009).

By age groups, those aged under 35 split 64%/24% and those aged 55+ split 47%/48%.