Evangelicals are losing their climate skepticism
No wonder the pushback on President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has thus far been minimal.
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April 28, 2021
(RNS) Let’s start with the numbers.
In 2014, Pew reported that just 28% of white evangelicals attributed global warming to human activity. Last October, by contrast, 44% of them said climate change was due “mostly to human activities,” according to a Climate Nexus poll.
Notwithstanding the difference in how the question was asked, white evangelicals have clearly become more willing to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change over the past decade. Indeed, while they remain less concerned about the issue than other major American religious communities, Climate Nexus found them to be closer to mainstream opinion than they used to be.
What my American history teacher taughtâ about climate change
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What my American history teacher taughtâ about climate change
What my American history teacher taughtâ about climate change | Thursday, April 29, 2021
Students seen in a high school classroom. | Reuters/Stephane Mahe
With these words, my 11th-grade United States history teacher began class. A class dedicated to teaching the next generation of Americans about the generations that preceded us. A class meant to help impressionable young minds see our history. A class that holds the power of right and wrong, life and death, in its wide hands.
India is just one of an increasing number of “developing” nation which have recognized that the mad rush toward a “net zero carbon” economy does not serve the interests of their ordinary citizens. These countries are also waking up to the fact that serving the public interest necessitates major increases in abundant, affordable, reliable, mostly fossil fuel electricity to power their burgeoning economies.
When first-world reporters write about the developing world’s ongoing love affair with fossil fuels, their reports are “not necessarily the news!” Instead, they editorialize in nearly every story about the “sad” reliance of India, China, African nations and others on “the highest polluting resource” – coal.
DeSmog
Sep 24, 2020 @ 10:12
When written histories remember 2020 as the year that America’s anti-science obsessions completed their evolution from dangerous to deadly, the premier of Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy will be deserving of at least a footnote. The film, produced by CFACT, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, and starring Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, was originally set to be released on April 21, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters and much of American life.
Undeterred by these physical realities, tonight CFACT will release its paean to climate denial, pledging to “rock the climate change debate,” a debate that has long been settled by the 97% or more of actively publishing climate scientists who agree that current warming trends are manmade.
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