Just what is it with evangelical Christians and global warming?

Just what is it with evangelical Christians and global warming? I doubt we’re ever going to get a satisfying answer to this long-running question, but it is being raised yet again by the publication yesterday of a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The poll canvassed views on climate change among the “major religious traditions” in the US. Surprise, surprise, it shows that “white evangelical Protestants” were the group with the lowest level

…Some of these leaders display a particular sort of venom towards the “global warming agenda”. Others, however, have appeared in recent years to start speaking up the need to adopt environmentalism