An online poll taken by Canadian analysis firm Insightrix Research, Inc. found that just 2 percent of respondents don’t believe that the climate is changing, the CBC reports. The poll surveyed 1,550 people from around Canada and was conducted between May 29 and June 11.
“Our survey indicates that Canadians from coast to coast overwhelmingly believe climate change is real and is occurring, at least in part due to human activity,” said IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. CEO Carmen Dybwad, whose company commissioned the poll, the CBC reported.
In the U.S., poll numbers about the public’s belief in climate change and specifically, global warming, have bounced around over the past few years, and are currently as high as 70 pecent according to a University of Texas poll taken in mid-July, an increase from 65 percent in March which some scientists attribute to the drought and extreme heat sweeping much of the continental U.S.
(H/T: Yale Environment 360)
