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  • Apr, 2014

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    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

    Vote other

     

    Nov 09

    Dec 10

    Jun 11

    Oct 12

    Oct 13

    Jan 14

    Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity

    56%

    70%

    39%

    87%

    46%

    53%

    45%

    50%

    48%

    52%

    51%

    We are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate

    34%

    23%

    51%

    5%

    39%

    34%

    36%

    39%

    39%

    36%

    39%

    Don’t know

    10%

    7%

    10%

    8%

    15%

    13%

    19%

    12%

    13%

    12%

    11%

    56% (up 5% since January) agree that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity and 34% (down 5%) believe that we may just be witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. This is the largest gap recorded between these figures since this question was first asked in 2009.

    By age groups, those aged under 35 split 65%/22% and those aged 55+ split 42%/52%. People with higher education were more likely to think climate change is happening and is caused by human activity – those with university degrees split 66%/24%.

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