Position on 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	Men	Women	Aged 18-34	Aged 35-54	Aged 55+		Nov 09	Dec 10	30 May 11
Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity	50%	64%	34%	83%	45%	54%	60%	49%	38%		53%	45%	52%
We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate	39%	28%	55%	10%	44%	33%	27%	37%	55%		34%	36%	36%
Don’t know	12%	9%	11%	6%	12%	12%	13%	14%	8%		13%	19%	12%

50% 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 little changed since this question was last asked in May.

By age groups, those aged under 35 split 60%/27% and those aged 55+ split 38%/55%.