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How to Get Evangelicals to Care About Climate Change

It’s not that evangelicals don’t care about the environment. It’s that they care about people more.Wikicommons

ast year was among the three warmest years ever , 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported. The two years prior were warmer (2016 the warmest), but they had a boost from El Nino—2017 didn’t. “The six warmest years on its website.

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