Aussies “accepting climate change”
Australian respondents viewed climate change as a more "immediate, proximal, and certain threat" than British respondents. Image: mattjeacock/iStockphoto Research from Griffith University and Cardiff University in Wales has found that Australians are accepting climate change and are taking adaptive action. The two-year project involving nearly 7500 Australians and 1800 Britons found 90% of Australian and 89% of British respondents accepted human causal impact on climate change.Though comparison findings showed striking similarities overall, Australian respondents viewed climate change as a more "immediate, proximal, and certain threat" than British respondents and were beginning to adapt to it through changes in their thinking, feelings and behaviours.71% of Australians also reported an increasing concern about climate change over the two year period prior to the surveys, citing increased awareness, media coverage, perceived lack of government action, and increasing frequency of natural disasters and extreme weather events.Australian project leader, Professor Joseph Reser from Griffith University's School of Applied...