Canadians have witnessed catastrophic climate change-induced disasters over and over in recent years, but polling suggests it’s having little effect on the public’s understanding of the climate crisis.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40004729

Against that backdrop, only 63 per cent of Canadians understand that climate change is real and caused by humans — a drop from 71 per cent in 2021, according to a poll published by the Angus Reid Institute Friday.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    While both terms are correct, it’s harder to argue with the term Climate Change and less likely to confuse people. It’s climate change caused by global warming.

    Also I wasn’t aware it was a conservative framing to change the name. I thought it was to avoid the “but it was cold today” argument/confusion with it