The scientific community has reached a consensus on humans’ important role as causative agents of climate change; however, branches of society are still sceptical about this. Climate change is a key issue for humanity and only the commitment to change human attitudes and lifestyles, at the global level, can be effective in its mitigation. With this purpose, it is important to convey the right message and prevent misinformation to manipulate people’s minds. The present study aims to understand the factors shaping European citizens’ thoughts on the causes of climate change. Using data from the European Social Survey 10 collected in 2022, we fitted statistical models using the people’s thoughts on causes of climate change (natural, anthropogenic or both) as dependent variables. As independent variables, we used the impact of the media through time spent on news and time spent on the internet, level of education, level of trust in scientists, awareness of online or mobile misinformation and gender. We concluded that the typical European citizen who believes in anthropogenic causes of climate change is a female, is more literate, trusts more in scientists, is younger, spends more time reading the news and has more awareness of misinformation presence in online and mobile communications.

科学界已就人类作为气候变化致病因素的重要作用达成共识；然而，社会各界对此仍持怀疑态度。气候变化是人类面临的一个关键问题，只有在全球范围内致力于改变人类的态度和生活方式，才能有效缓解气候变化。为此，传达正确的信息并防止错误信息操纵人们的思想非常重要。本研究旨在了解影响欧洲公民对气候变化原因的看法的因素。利用 2022 年收集的欧洲社会调查 10 的数据，我们使用人们对气候变化原因（自然、人为或两者）的想法作为因变量来拟合统计模型。作为自变量，我们通过花在新闻上的时间和花在互联网上的时间、教育水平、对科学家的信任程度、对在线或移动错误信息的认识以及性别来利用媒体的影响。我们得出的结论是，相信气候变化是人为原因的典型欧洲公民是女性，她们更有文化，更信任科学家，更年轻，花更多时间阅读新闻，并且对在线和移动通信中存在的错误信息有更多的认识。