PEOPLE feel starved of solid information about climate change and are unsure about what practical measures are being taken to deal with it, data gathered over the past year by the federal government's Climate Commission shows.

''There is a lot of confusion out there about the science of climate change, about the carbon price and other policies, but generally people have been very keen to find out more and find out what they … can do,'' said its chief commissioner, Tim Flannery.

''There is a lot of confusion out there about the science of climate change'' ... the Climate Commission's Tim Flannery says people are keen to know more. Credit:Dean Sewell

The commission has held 15 public forums in 17 cities and towns, covering each state and territory, and most were attended by more than 200 people who afterwards completed surveys about the value of the information. Its first annual report will be released today.

Professor Flannery and his fellow commissioners have been heckled, hissed at and, on one occasion, accused of genocide, but the overwhelming majority of people who filled out qualitative surveys said the forums were valuable.