Canadians are worried about climate change, with those over 65 among the most concerned, Statistics Canada said, as large swathes of the country are reeling from higher-than-normal temperatures.
The Canadian Social Survey is a quarterly national survey that collects information on a variety of social topics such as health, well-being, quality of life, confidence in institutions, activities, time-use and emergency preparedness.
For the first time, the survey included questions around climate change.
In 2025, more than half of Canadians (53 per cent) were “very” or “extremely” concerned about climate change and almost one-third (30 per cent) of Canadians felt stressed about climate change at least once a month, the survey said.
“Media and policy discussions on climate change often focus on youth, as this group is more likely than older demographics to face the long-term impacts of climate change,” Statistics Canada said
In 2025, however, it was Canadians aged 65 years and older that were more likely to report being highly concerned about climate change (59 per cent), compared to their younger counterparts (51 per cent among Canadians aged 15 to 24 years), the agency added.
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Women (59 per cent) were more likely than men (48 per cent) to report feeling concern about climate change, while university graduates (60 per cent) were more concerned than those without a high school diploma (46 per cent).
Canadians worried about climate change are also more likely to take action to reduce their impact on the environment, with 65 per cent reducing food waste and 57 per cent reducing energy consumption.
The data comes as 2025 was confirmed to be one of the hottest years on record, despite the temporary cooling caused by La Niña.
Environment and Climate Change Canada said human-made climate change made the Canadian heat waves of 2025 two to 10 times more likely.
According to Environment Canada, millions of Canadians were under yellow and orange alerts for heat last week, with advisories listed across Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.
Labelled as the most common weather alert, the yellow alert is meant to symbolize “hazardous weather” that indicates that impacts are “moderate, localized and/or short-term,” but “may cause damage disruption, or health impacts.”
WOW!! I guess seniors forget about other years when temps were between 40 & 45!! I sure don’t!
It’s funny how some people think they have more expertise than climatologists who overwhelmingly believe in climate change. It’s like the people who oppose vaccination, which has dramatically helped increase life expectancy. Those people think they know better. But the same people rely experts like doctors, mechanics, etc. when they have an issue. Befuddling.
It was 26 degrees celsius today in metro Vancouver. How is this climate change? It’s July. It should be 26 degrees.
Youth know it’s game over. No need to worry now too terminally.
We’ve already hit 1.5C and it’s clear civilization is not going to survive the level & onslaught of extreme weather events at this warming.
Hilarious. People are afraid of “climate change”. I am Ben is a part of that group.
Guys calm down, no one is brainwashed. They prob polled the staff of cbc. And ignore ben, hes the same guy who comments how great carney is doing on every news article
Back in my day we called climate change, “Seasons”
@ Ben oh boy Ben it hasn’t been global warming since Al Gore was debunked. That is why the changed the big bad boogy man to climate change. Try to keep up eh !!!
@u know it Respectfully, weather is different than climate.
HELLO, ITS SUMMER TIME !!! AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, 67 SUMMERS BRINGS HEAT, DRY , DROUGHT, and FIRES !!! W T F IS NEW ABOUT THIS ??? OTHER THAN FEAR MONGERING !!! WINTER BRINGS COLD, ICE, WET and SNOW. REMEMBER, NOT ROCKET SCIENCE HERE. GO BACK TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND LEARN ABOUT THE 4 SEASONS ! FO O LS
67 HERE ! DON’T GIVE A F/ K ABOUT FALSE SCIENCE !!! ALL FEAR MONGERING B/ S TO BEGIN WITH, TO FILL GOVERNMENTS POCKETS. PEOPLE BELEIVE EVERYTHING THEY SEE ON TV AND HEAR. LEARN HOW TO COPE , NOT CHANGE !!! IF YOUR LOVED ONE DIES, DO YOU BELIEVE THERE COMING BACK ? OF COURSE NOT, YOU MOVE THE F / K ON !!! AND COPE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. SO F / K OFF
The vast majority of climate scientists are warning of global warming. The googling “experts” who have no education or experience in climate science need to give up their lame attempts to deny global warming.
Most seniors with grandkids are scared for the future of their grandkids. Lonely seniors don’t care about anybody once they’re gone.
False, its the youth who’ve been brainwashed, most seniors dismiss it as a tax grab
People are always subject to myths and misinformation and when that happens with the climate those who most worry are the ones who are the most uninformed. A recent report from many climate scientists who used to consider the UN IPCC computer models of climate change as fact have now said that data over decades has shown that the computer modelling was wrong and that temperatures around the world have not substantially increased as predicted. There will always be temperature fluctuations from year to year but there is no catastrophe waiting to happen. The climate has always, and will always change over decades, centuries and millennia. The sky is not falling.
And that is why Liberals do not have long on this plane of existence.
what caused the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets to melt? Early man’s campfires? Dinosaur farts? Or a natural cycle? Thank goodness for climate change.
Maliciously twisted polls and ignorant boomers are a great combination when you can profit off the climate change scam.
Further to what other commenter said, there are various natural cycles at play, most importantly the 40,000 and 100,000-year cycles of variation in the earth’s orbit around the sun (discovered in the 1920s) that have been found to line up exactly with temperature record proxies for the past million years. Not to mention magma plume movements that can’t really be tracked, or the variations in the earth’s magnetic field. And who knows about others.
Most importantly, the short term (few year) global temperature variations caused by water vapour emitted by volcanic eruptions, such as the Tonga one a few years ago. The climate propagandists know about these but keep quiet about them because these are the actual source of the fluctuations they point to as proof of climate change.
@matthew I’m sorry you can’t engage respectfully. You take care eh!
I suspect these over sixties folks are the hippys from the day. We all know they fried their brains out on to much pot smoking and other pharmaceuticals.
You can get any,I repeat, absolutely any result you desire with a poll, provided you ask the right question
Now, if it’s a paid , online poll, easy peasy
A surprise to no one.
Ben, you’re an idiot. The last glacial maximum occurred 10’s of thousands o years ago (~19-29 thousand) and the average span is 80,000 – 100,000, not the hundreds of thousands you wrote in all caps.
Do you figure of 30 thousand in 100 thousand years we should be warming or cooling?
Humans do have an impact on the earth’s climate, but not the extremist extent espoused by the liberals and activists.
Imagine worrying about something that is 100 percent natural occurring and also nothing can be done to stop it. I assume these people have other serious mental/emotional issues.
Because boomers are addicted to fear and are gullible AF.
Climate DOES go in cycles. But those natural cycles are over HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. We are talking about a climate change caused by HUMANS which is occurring in a very short period of time, ie. less than 200 years. That’s the problem!
I wonder who they actually polled because most people 65 and over have lived through heatwaves and bad winters to know that the climate changes all the time. Some years hot some years not so hot the same in the winter some years lots of snow and ice and some years not. It’s very arrogant of humans to think they can control the climate the best humans can do is prepare to get through the tough times. The big question is where has all the carbon tax money gone because it hasn’t helped with the climate one bit because the “experts “ keep saying it’s get worse
No one in our complex was concerned about the climate change not even one of them and there’s 400 in our complex crime was number one
As a senior, I do not believe this poll. We have always had climate that weather goes in cycles. However some are easily talked into false beliefs. Any survey can be swayed depending on how the questions are asked. This was biased in favour of climate crazies and the government.
@howard It’s all about leaving the world a better place than we came in, isn’t it? I hope you have many more years of healthy, happy life.
@ BEN i really don’t give a rats as i am in my seventies and on the way out.
53% is pretty low considering the tax dollar funded media only polls liberal ridings.
I.dont know a single adult OR young person thats worried about it
They care about facts not emotions and ideology though
The climate deniers say the weather has changed many times throughout earth history. That is correct, but those changes occurred over long periods. What they fail to point out is that we are witnessing global warming over a VERY short period. Global warming is going to cause catastrophic issues and we aren’t prepared.