Table 3.
Causes of Climate Change | All | Medical | Public Health | Nursing | p | ||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Climate change is mainly caused by human activities | 1071 | 77.3 | 508 | 78.9 | 333 | 77.4 | 230 | 73.7 | 0.17 |
The global CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased during the past 250 years | 1034 | 74.7 | 484 | 75.2 | 321 | 75.0 | 229 | 73.2 | 0.80 |
The last century’s global increase in temperature was the largest during the past 1000 years | 880 | 63.6 | 420 | 65.2 | 285 | 66.4 | 175 | 56.5 | 0.01 |
Today’s global CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has already occurred in the past 650,000 years | 217 | 15.7 | 94 | 14.6 | 75 | 17.5 | 48 | 15.4 | 0.45 |
Total score (Mean ± SD) | 2.31 ± 1.01 | 2.34 ± 1.02 | 2.36 ± 1.01 | 2.18 ± 0.98 | 0.02 |