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Tony Abbott’s belief in Climate Change

1 Aug 2011

Q. What do you think Tony Abbott actually believes about climate change?

Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
Does not believe in climate change 19% 28% 14% 34%
Does believe in climate change 27% 13% 46% 8%
Doesn’t care whether climate change is real or not 31% 48% 17% 42%
Don’t know 22% 11% 22% 16%

31% of respondents think that Tony Abbott doesn’t care whether climate change is real or not, 27% think he believes in climate change and 19% think he doesn’t.

46% of Liberal/National voters think he believes in climate change compared to only 13% of Labor voters and 8% of Greens voters. 34% of Greens voters think he does not believe in climate change and 48% of Labor voters think he doesn’t care whether climate change is real or not.

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