The Majority of Catholic Republicans Believe in Climate Change

Pacific Standard ^ | Jun 23, 2015 | J. Wesley Judd

[Gamecock]

Last week, Pope Francis released his long awaited—and preemptively leaked—encyclical, acknowledging climate change as mostly human-induced and cause for drastic transformation on both individual and nationwide levels. It was an unprecedented move by the leader of the Catholic Church, as religiosity has long been linked to lower levels of climate concern. Fortunately, however, the Pope's message will fall on receptive ears.

Researchers at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication have found that, among religious Republicans—and Republicans are more likely to be religious than Democrats—Catholic Republicans are "more convinced that global warming is happening and human-caused, and are more worried and supportive of climate policies, than are non-Catholic Republicans," the authors write.

In fact, the majority of Catholic Republicans (51 percent) believe global warming is indeed happening, compared to 42 percent of non-Catholic Republicans. Catholic Republicans are also more likely to think global warming is primarily caused by humans than non-Catholic Republicans, although by a smaller margin—36 percent vs. 30 percent. Not surprisingly, those percentages represent the number of Catholic Republicans who are worried about global warming versus non-Catholic Republicans, too.

The researchers also found 71 percent of Catholic Republicans express support of policies that address global warming, such as tax rebates for solar panels or energy efficient vehicles, while only 64 percent of non-Catholic Republicans do.

Their data was collected between fall 2012 and spring 2015 via six nationally representative surveys.

[Gamecock]

The same Catholics who voted for 0bama?

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I’m a Catholic and I too believe in climate change.

It’s called the weather.

And the climate on this planet has been changing for billions of years.

Long before humans inhabited the planet.

[Gamecock]

Since 1999.
Celebrating 2,500 threads started!

[needmorePaine]

In fact, the majority of Catholic Republicans (51 percent) believe global warming is indeed happening, compared to 42 percent of non-Catholic Republicans. Catholic Republicans are also more likely to think global warming is primarily caused by humans than non-Catholic Republicans, although by a smaller margin—36 percent vs. 30 percent. Not surprisingly, those percentages represent the number of Catholic Republicans who are worried about global warming versus non-Catholic Republicans, too.

The researchers also found 71 percent of Catholic Republicans express support of policies that address global warming, such as tax rebates for solar panels or energy efficient vehicles, while only 64 percent of non-Catholic Republicans do.

My takeaway from this is that all of the above percentages are far too high!

[rightwingcrazy]

“The researchers also found 71 percent of Catholic Republicans express support of policies that address global warming, such as tax rebates for solar panels or energy efficient vehicles”

That number is a bit deceptive; many may support those policies for reasons other than global warming.

[dowcaet]

It’s cool in the morning, gets warmer during the day, and cools down again at night. Yes, this is one Catholic who believes in climate change.

[Louis Foxwell]

Just goes to show how a preponderance of otherwise competent people can be duped.

[A CA Guy]

Everyone believes the climate changes, but most think that is a typical pattern thing over great periods of time and is not man caused.

[Mygirlsmom]

I believe it’s blasphemous to think that we are so powerful as to be able to destroy God’s creation as a mere byproduct of our existence.

[A CA Guy]

Also the large Catholic people who might believe the climate change is due to people are in this country the uneducated peasants who started from Mexico and other places or the kids brainwashed by liberal teachers.

[Olog-hai]

To paraphrase Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13, “Ye cannot serve God and the IPCC.”

[BeauBo]

I suddenly am hearing a lot of advertisements on my conservative talk radio station pushing climate change on Catholics.

It looks like a Leftist front group doing this (Knights of St. Francis - founded in San Francisco in 2008).

They run ads saying: Pope Francis said this, Pope Francis said that, Have you heard what Pope Francis said? Trying to make Catholics think that this is Catholic doctrine.

Every religion is attacked by Leftists attempting to infiltrate, subvert, or just impersonate.

I think that they are preparing the battlefield in swing states now, trying to target swing demographics and swing issues.

[mulligan]

You can’t fix stupid.

[WENDLE]

What is the objective criteria for “climate change” and how is it measured by imperical data?

[RnMomof7]

They believe whatever they are told

[Lionheartusa1]

BULL$H!+ !!!!!!!!!!!! Print anything and hope it becomes a fact as a result . I’ll bet the Pacific Standard is a hardcore right wing pub too ,,,, right ??? (WRONG)

[Alex Murphy]

Researchers at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication have found that, among religious Republicans—and Republicans are more likely to be religious than Democrats—Catholic Republicans are "more convinced that global warming is happening and human-caused, and are more worried and supportive of climate policies, than are non-Catholic Republicans," the authors write. In fact, the majority of Catholic Republicans (51 percent) believe global warming is indeed happening, compared to 42 percent of non-Catholic Republicans. Catholic Republicans are also more likely to think global warming is primarily caused by humans than non-Catholic Republicans, although by a smaller margin—36 percent vs. 30 percent. Not surprisingly, those percentages represent the number of Catholic Republicans who are worried about global warming versus non-Catholic Republicans, too. The researchers also found 71 percent of Catholic Republicans express support of policies that address global warming, such as tax rebates for solar panels or energy efficient vehicles, while only 64 percent of non-Catholic Republicans do.

PFL

[Buckeye McFrog]

Being a Catholic Republican I can tell you, we are a small subset of Catholics.

And I don’t know any of us who believe in this crap.

[DungeonMaster]

In other news Catholics believe Mary was immaculately conceived and bodily assumed into heaven where she is the Queen of Heaven and intercedes for Christians who pray to her.