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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    5 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

    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      That was always a dumb argument that no one genuinely found confusing. It was always a red herring.

      The Bush administration pushed the “climate change, not global warming” narrative (I’m not saying they invented it, only that they spearheaded the rhetorical framing and made it popular)

      It’s undeniable that the end result of changing this framing is that fewer people believe now that changes should be made to mitigate long term effects of carbon emissions than 25 years ago.