Analysis of Quantitative Data on Climate Change Beliefs

This report presents the results of a survey on personal, family, and student beliefs about climate change. The data shows mixed opinions on the severity and causes of climate change, with some believing it is entirely natural and others recognizing the impact of human activity. The report concludes with a call to action for increased awareness and action to protect the environment.

Analysis of quantitative data
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INTRODUCTION
Climate change is the biggest problem in any country. It arises due to long term changes in
temperature and weather conditions. These changes may occur due to natural or manmade
conditions. Human activities are the main reason for the destruction of the climate change. There
are various reason for changing of climate in world like emission of methane, sulphur or carbon
dioxide. Global warming is the main reason for the climate change and has affected the weather
pattern of the earth. It is threatening people to survive for the basic necessities, scarcity of natural
resources, more heat and increasing the more temperature on earth. The world health
organisation has given a indication of climate change is the serious threat to country. Green
house gases is also impacting the condition of earth. Due to this there is frequent changes in coral
reefs, mountains and affected the weather conditions. It is essential to study how climate change
can affect the running operations of the country. In this there are lot of questions asked from the
respondents in which there is questionnaire is filled from the people. This will give an perception
of the people how their life has affected with the climate change.
Task 1: Personal belief analysis
Belief is faith of a person on basis of which he makes judgements. This judgement are based on
experience, studies, probability, societal or culture that he comes from. Personal belief of a
person reflects his thinking about an event. A person can base a belief upon certainties such as
mathematical experiments and research done on the situation, probabilities or matters of faith. A
belief can be built from different resources, including:
 A individual own experiences or experiments
 The adoption of the cultural beliefs of a person.
 What the person hears from the mouth of others and those who he believes on.
A prospective impression sits with the person until they accept it as truth, and follow it as part of
their individual belief system.
Each individual has their own prospective about how they accept a belief and to the extend they
follow it
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Once a person accepts a belief as a truth they are willing to defend, it can be said to form part of
their belief system.
Climatic change is termed to as a change in long term shift in the patterns of weather and
changes in temperature. It can be assumed that these changes are natural but after the 1880's the
main factor of climatic changes is the activities of human by cutting down trees, polluting the
rivers, by mixing up of harmful chemical substances in the air. All the worldwide climate
changes is related to global warming. It is the connected system of un, earth, oceans, wind, rains,
snow. When the fossil fuels are burned it generates greenhouse gases that can play the role as
blanket which is surrounded over the atmosphere if earth which traps the sun's heat and the
raising temperatures.
Table C.1: Personal Beliefs about whether the world’s climate is changing
Number of Respondents Percentage of respondents
Believe in Climate Change 100 100
Don’t Believe in Climate
Change
0 0
Don’t Know whether the
world’s climate is changing
0 0
No Response 0 0
TOTAL 100 100%
Interpretation: The respondent was aged from 18 to 41. All of them agreed to the fact that
world's climate is changing. The respondent was given three options whether they Believe I
climate change, don't believe in climate change, don't know whether the world's climate is
changing. Out of 100 respondents all of them successfully given their responses as yes. None of
them disagreed or failed to respond to the questionnaire
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Task 2:
This beliefs refer to the shared and assembled judgements and bias of the family that are appear
by the family members. Family can be nuclear or joint. It involves the step siblings as well as
parents who are not biological but related with them. Family comprises the values, expectations,
responsibilities and roles for the purpose of their development and behaviour. Family is all
about love, care and respect. They helps to people to grow with the manners. Values of family
furnish outlook on life, path to look the world and situation or identity. family are to be made
aware of the climatic change taking place in the country and the world. as this has became
serious issue at international level. families are to be made responsible about how they are
actions are effecting the environment in adverse way and how they need to change their habits in
order to protect to the environment. There can be many minor steps that can be taken in side the
home which may bring major changes in the future. for sustainable development must be aim of
an individual, corporation an society. spreading general awareness and regular meeting and
programs towards saving energy, water and other resources must be an goal of all the population.
Calculation of percentage:
The respondent who believes in climate changing = 44/100*100 = 44%
The respondent in which some believes in climate changing and some don't = 49/100*100 =
49%
The people who do not believe in the climate changes = 2/100*100 = 2%
The members who don not know about the climate change = 5/100*100 = 5%
The are no one who give not the response of questionnaire.
INTERPRETATION: In this task, there are 100 respondents, which give different answers
according their own view. 44 members of family responded yes it mean they believed in climate
changes out of 100. 44 members are agreed the fact of changing the climate. In out 100 answers
there are 49 respondents are those members who are agreed in some conditions and or some are
not agreed in a family so they are considered in “some do and some don't” situation. There are
2 members of family who do not believe in changing the climate out of 100 respondents. There
are 5 respondents who don't know about the changing the climate weather their family believe in
climate change and none of them were there who did not give the answer or response of the
questionnaire.
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Table C.2: Beliefs about Climate Change held by immediate/close family members of 102816
Students
Number of Respondents Percentage of respondents
Family Members Believe in
Climate Change 44 44.00%
Some Family Members
Believe in Climate Change
and Some Family Members
Do Not Believe In Climate
Change
49 49.00%
Family Members Do Not
Believe in Climate Change 2 2.00%
Don’t Know Whether
Family Believe in Climate
Change
5 5.00%
No Response 0 0
TOTAL 100 100%
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TASK 3
Belief Number of Respondents Percentage of Respondents
Climate change is entirely
caused by natural processes 0 -
Climate change is mainly
caused by natural processes 1 1%
Climate change is partly
caused by natural processes
and partly caused by human
activity
45 45%
Climate change is mainly
caused by human activity 43 43%
Climate change is entirely
caused by human activity 8 8%
I think there is no such thing
as climate change 0 -
Don't know 2 2%
No Opinion 1 1%
TOTAL 100 100%
The following Pivot table showcases the sorted collection of data which is defined through
multiple variables. Here the Pivot table is defined as the function, which helps present data
systematically and in orderly manner and henceforth mitigates the effects sorting out large
amounts of data. The steps involve selection of the relevant data from the excel file and
henceforth selecting the pivot table option from the insert menu. Furthermore, the following
table represents the number of respondents with various opinions. In this manner, the survey
presents multiple views about the climate change and how it is sorted in Excel. Also in last three
series of climatic data discuss about the survey which mainly conducted to understand the
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variations of climate in which the 5th number of series discuss about the feedback of individual
which explain that how climate is partly caused by natural procedures and human task. This is
the opinion of 45 individuals of the particular area in which the survey was conducted. they tell
that climate not fully effected by the human activity its partly affected by the natural processes
and human activity. Basically the climate can be affected through the human activity like the
harmful gas released from the industries and the pollution of vehicle affect the climate and partly
it effected naturally in which there is no involvement of human activity this is the opinion of the
people in the country about climatic change. Apart from this in 6th number many of the
individual have no idea or don’t know any information about the climatic change but these type
of individuals are only two and in last series of climatic survey is no option in which only one of
the individual have not have any alternative regarding the climate change.
CONCLUSION
From this report it is concluded that people has mixed feelings about the climate hazards.
Some people have opinion that they are little affected by this and some people life is majorly
affected by some does not know about the concept of climate change. This report is analysed by
the views of personal belief, family belief and student belief. The opinions of personal belief
people is that they know the severity of climate change. When people were asked about the
family belief half of the respondent were aware. The population should know about the fact that
climatic change is severe they must be aware about it. This data can be used for further
researches as this topic is in favour of the environment health oof the world. This research will
helps the people to know the hazards of climate change and to guide them how can they will
protect the environment. Because in today's scenario it has seen that environment is polluted by
the human factors more rather than natural factors. People should use that tools which can save
the environment. If it is happening continuously than it will affect the lifecycle of the earth.
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