“There is no sign of religious people saving us from climate change.”
from the Paris Climate Agreement — precisely the sort of unified, global response to climate change that the Pope was calling for in 2015.
A less-than-immaculate conception of global warming is likewise evident in more recent polls of US Catholics. Overall, there was an increase in those who said that the Earth is warming due to human activity, from 47% in 2015 to 56% in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. “However, while these data are pre- and post-encyclical, we don’t have any data showing that the Pope’s encyclical is the reason for the change,” Pew’s Anna Schiller told BuzzFeed News by email.
What’s more, the way Catholics responded to that question depended highly on their politics. The share of Catholic Democrats who said the Earth is warming due to human activity has increased from 63% in 2015 to 80% in 2017, according to Pew. But the change among Catholic Republicans was not significant, from 26% in 2015 and 22% in 2017). People’s politics pulled more weight than the Pope.
The divide looks even more stark when you separate Latino Catholics from the rest, with immigrants more likely than non-immigrants to accept that climate change is a problem, Zaleha said. “Basically everyone south of the border accepts the huge weight of evidence for climate change, like the rest of the world except for the US, so they come here with those attitudes.”
To give the Pope his due, US Catholics are more likely than white evangelical Protestants to say the Earth is getting warmer (about which there is
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