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title: "White Evangelicals Reject Global Warming"
description: "One-in-three white evangelical Protestants say there is no solid evidence that global warming is occurring."
date: "2009-04-30"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/04/30/white-evangelicals-reject-global-warming/"
---

# White Evangelicals Reject Global Warming

About half (48%) of white mainline Protestants believe the earth is warming as the result of human activity — roughly the same proportion as among all Americans (47%) — but only a third of white evangelical Protestants (34%) share that belief. In fact, white evangelical Protestants are the most likely to say there is no solid evidence that global warming is occurring (31%). While only 39% of black Protestants say global warming is a result of human activity, they are, however, the least likely of the religions studied to deny global warming (15%). The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1194/global-warming-belief-by-religion)