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.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Those things are different. They’re not the same thing, although they’re related.

    Global warming means that overall the Earth is warming up. This is true. It’s talking about the planet as a whole.

    Global warming causes climate to change in specific areas of the globe. Some places will be hotter, colder, drier, etc. It’s talking about regions of the planet.

    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I’m not really trying to argue the technical correctness of these terms, rather their effectiveness as rhetoric.