A new poll of Latinos in the United States finds that a large majority — more than four fifths — accept that climate change is real, and that a majority — almost two thirds — accept that climate change is mostly due to human activity.
Asked "Do you think global warming and climate change are mostly caused by human activities; caused mostly by natural changes in the environment; other; or none of the above because global warming and climate change isn't [sic] happening," 66% of respondents preferred the first answer, 31% preferred the second answer, 3% preferred the third answer, and 6% preferred the fourth answer, with 3% saying that they didn't know.
In a memorandum about the poll, Latino Decisions — which conducted the poll for Earthjustice and GreenLatinos — commented (PDF), "Latinos, more than other Americans, see climate change as a consequence of human activity. Almost two-thirds (66%) accept anthropogenic explanations of global warming. Comparing our results to other national surveys of the broader population, the differences are around 14 percentage points."
The memorandum explains, "The survey, fielded between June 24 and July 8, [2015,] is based on a national sample of 1,200 Latino registered voters who were interviewed by landline, cell and on-line in English and Spanish. The survey has a nominal margin-of-error of +/- 2.8%."