Causation of climate change The clear majority of Victorians (91%) accept some level of human causality for climate change: 3% think climate change is caused by natural processes’, and › ‘entirely 4% of Victorians hold the opinion that is no such thing as climate change’. › ‘there Figure 3 compares the results for Mallee with Victoria overall, Greater Melbourne and Regional Victoria. While the Mallee region had higher percentages of respondents saying they don't think climate change is happening (8% compared to 4% state average) or that climate change is entirely due to natural processes (7% compared to 3% state average) these differences were not statistically significant. FIGURE 3: OPINIONS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSALITY NET: Some NET: human Scepticism causation 7% 12 34 38 7 3 4 2 91% 6% 13 36 36 7 3 4 2 92% 8% 9 29 43 9 4 4 2 90% 15% 7 23 40 13 7 8 84% 1 Source: A2 Base: Total sample (VIC: n=3,333 | GM: n=1,424 | Reg VIC n=1,909 | Mallee n=211)
Causation of climate change The clear majority of Victorians (91%) accept some level of human causality for climate change: › 3% think climate change is ‘entirely caused by natural processes’, and › 4% of Victorians hold the opinion that ‘there is no such thing as climate change’. Figure 3 compares the results for Mallee with Victoria overall, Greater Melbourne and Regional Victoria. While the Mallee region had higher percentages of respondents saying they don't think climate change is happening (8% compared to 4% state average) or that climate change is entirely due to natural processes (7% compared to 3% state average) these differences were not statistically significant. FIGURE 3: OPINIONS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSALITY NET: Scepticism NET: Some human causation 91% 12 34 38 7 3 4 2 7% 92% 13 36 36 7 3 4 2 6% 90% 9 29 43 9 4 4 2 8% 84% 7 23 40 13 7 8 1 15% Source: A2 Base: Total sample (VIC: n=3,333 | GM: n=1,424 | Reg VIC n=1,909 | Mallee n=211)
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