4 In 10 Americans Think Extreme Weather Is Due To Biblical End-Times | Addicting Info

A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute has shown that nearly four in ten Americans blame severe weather on the end-times, as predicted in the Bible. While the findings show that over 60% of Catholics and white Protestants of non-evangelical denominations believe such weather is due to climate change, more than 60% of white, evangelical Protestants believe that weather events such as Superstorm Sandy are in line with Biblical end-times prophecy.

[,,,] Science, as is commonly known, points to increasing levels of carbon dioxide emissions as a major source of climate change. Since 1950, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went above 300 parts per million for the first time in history, according to studies of ice cores from various glaciers around the world. We have also known about carbon dioxide’s ability to trap heat since the mid-19th century, according to NASA. John Tyndall, a mid-19th century scientist, found that certain gases, including water vapor and carbon dioxide, absorb heat far more strongly than the atmosphere as a whole.

[,,,] Since scientists admit there’s a lot they don’t understand about climate change, Evangelical Christians and the anti-science crowd cling to that admission as proof that scientific theories are merely hypothetical, and there is no actual proof that climate change is caused by man and his pollution of the planet.

[,,,] Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Congress’ most outspoken opponent of climate change science, believes that it’s arrogant for humans to think that they can control the climate when God is still around.

He has gone so far as to say that scientists have manipulated climate data in order to further their own agenda and that of the U.N. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and that the U.S. agencies that have evidence supporting anthropogenic climate change are tied into the IPCC and, of course, are going to work to push the “massive hoax” along.

4 In 10 Americans Think Extreme Weather Is Due To Biblical End-Times | Addicting Info