{"id":25602,"date":"2009-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/04\/16\/faith-in-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:52:22","slug":"faith-in-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2009\/04\/16\/faith-in-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Groups\u2019 Views on Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earth Day takes place on April 22 each year. One issue at the center of public discussions about the environment is global warming: whether it is occurring and what its causes might be. An analysis by the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/report\/417\/a-deeper-partisan-divide-over-global-warming\">2008 survey<\/a> conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press examines views on global warming among major religious traditions in the U.S. The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely among the religious groups studied to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity. White evangelical Protestants\u00a0are the most likely to say there is no solid evidence the earth is warming (31%), and\u00a0the least likely to believe that humans have contributed to\u00a0heating up the planet\u00a0(34%). While only 39% of black Protestants say global warming is a result of human activity, they are, however,\u00a0the least likely of the religions studied to deny global warming is occurring (15%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/old-assets\/publications\/1194-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"470\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Data from a Pew Research Center survey conducted April 23-27, 2008, among 1,502 American adults. Results for other religious groups are not reported due to small sample sizes. <\/sub><\/p>\n\n<p>[If &#8220;yes,&#8221; ask]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more on religion and science see <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/docs\/?DocID=275\">Science in America: Religious Belief and Public Attitudes<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity while white evangelical Protestants (34%) are the least likely to believe in man-made global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"Religious Groups' Views on Earth Warming Evidence","sub_title":"Religious Groups' Views on Earth Warming 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