Only 60% of Australians accept climate disruption is human-caused, global poll finds

Despite Australia’s many extreme weather events, such as floods, just 60% of Australians accept that climate disruption is human-caused, according to an international poll. Photograph: NSW Rural Fire Service

Australians are among the most sceptical around the world that climate disruption is being caused by humans and that the costs of tackling it will be less than that of its impacts, according to polling across 26 countries.

Just 60% of Australians accept that climate disruption is human-caused, a fall of six percentage points from the previous poll 18 months earlier and well behind the global average of 73%, according to the results from French polling company Elabe.