{"id":1373,"date":"2009-04-22T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2009\/04\/study-evangelicals-trail-other.php"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:45:38","slug":"study-evangelicals-trail-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2009\/04\/study-evangelicals-trail-other","title":{"rendered":"Study: Evangelicals Trail Other Faiths on Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) While a majority of white evangelicals believe there is solid evidence that the earth is warming, only one in three says human activity is the cause, according to a recent survey.<br \/>\nAs the world celebrates Earth Day, a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life shows significant disagreement among U.S. religious groups on climate change and its causes.<br \/>\nNearly half of all Americans blame global warming on human activity, according to the survey, but only 34 percent of white evangelical Protestants do the same. Seventeen percent of that group say natural patterns are the cause, and 31 percent are not convinced that the earth is warming at all.<br \/>\nThat stance is at odds with black Protestants, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and religiously unaffiliated Americans, all of whom are significantly more likely to accept evidence of global warming, according to Pew.<br \/>\nBlack Protestants (39 percent); white, non-Hispanic Catholics (44 percent); white mainline Protestants (48 percent); and religiously unaffiliated Americans (58 percent) are all also more likely to attribute climate change to humans, the survey found.<br \/>\n<em>Daniel Burke<br \/>\nReligion News Service<br \/>\nCopyright 2009 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. 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